Thirty-day postoperative mortality risk estimates and 1-year survival in Veterans Health Administration surgery patients

JAMA Surgery

Volumn 151, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 417-422

  Smith, Tracy ^a   Li, Xinli ^a   Nylander, William ^a   Gunnar, William ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY RATE; MORTALITY RISK; OPERATING ROOM; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VETERANS HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; MORTALITY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY; TIME FACTOR; TIME TO TREATMENT; UNITED STATES;

FEMALE; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84971367864     PISSN: 21686254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2015.4882     Document Type: Article

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