Use of intensive care services for medicare beneficiaries undergoing major surgical procedures

Anesthesiology

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 899-907

  Wunsch, Hannah ^a,b,c   Gershengorn, Hayley B ^a   Cooke, Colin R ^d   Guerra, Carmen ^c   Angus, Derek C ^e   Rowe, John W ^f   Li, Guohua ^c,g  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f University of Pittsburgh ^*  (United States)

^g Department of Health Policy and Management ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTECTOMY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; MEDICARE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL CARE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84955583684     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000001024     Document Type: Article

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