Assessment of variation in care and outcomes for pediatric appendicitis at children's and non-children's hospitals

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1885-1892

  Tian, Yao ^a   Heiss, Kurt F ^b   Wulkan, Mark L ^b   Raval, Mehul V ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Appendectomy; Appendicitis; Kids' Inpatient Database; Pediatric surgery; Quality; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; ILEUS; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; WOUND COMPLICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ECONOMICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITAL; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UTILIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HOSPITALS; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PARENTERAL NUTRITION, TOTAL; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 84953348680     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: 15315037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2015.06.012     Document Type: Article

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