Using patient outcomes to evaluate general surgery residency program performance

JAMA Surgery

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 111-119

  Bansal, Neha ^a,b   Simmons, Kristina D ^b   Epstein, Andrew J ^a,c,d   Morris, Jon B ^a,b   Kelz, Rachel R ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; ANTIREFLUX OPERATION; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BLEEDING; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON RESECTION; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEART DISEASE; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; INTESTINE RESECTION; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER RESECTION; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTECTOMY; NERVE INJURY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS RESECTION; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM RESECTION; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTICEMIA; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH SURGERY; THYROIDECTOMY; TOTAL COLON RESECTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; EVALUATION STUDY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MIDDLE AGED; STANDARDS;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84959172320     PISSN: 21686254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2015.3637     Document Type: Article

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