Seasonal variation in emergency general surgery

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 263, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 76-81

  Zangbar, Bardiya ^a   Rhee, Peter ^a   Pandit, Viraj ^a   Hsu, Chiu Hsieh ^a   Khalil, Mazhar ^a   Okeefe, Terence ^a   Neumayer, Leigh ^a   Joseph, Bellal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute appendicitis; Acute cholecystitis; Diverticulitis; Emergency general surgery; National Inpatient Sample; Regression; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; DIVERTICULITIS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUMMER; WINTER; ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDICITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; SEASON; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; APPENDICITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS; DIVERTICULITIS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; SEASONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 84953791576     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000001238     Document Type: Article

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