Emergency general surgery in a low-middle income health care setting: Determinants of outcomes

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 641-649

  Shah, Adil A ^a,c   Latif, Asad ^d,e   Zogg, Cheryl K ^c   Zafar, Syed Nabeel ^f   Riviello, Robert ^c   Halim, Muhammad Sohail ^b   Rehman, Zia ^a   Haider, Adil H ^c   Zafar, Hasnain ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CASE MIX; COLORECTAL DISEASE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HERNIA; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; YOUNG ADULT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EMERGENCY; EVALUATION STUDY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAKISTAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PAKISTAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84955182259     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2015.08.004     Document Type: Article

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