Hospital readmission and 30-day mortality after surgery for oral cavity cancer: Analysis of 21,681 cases

Head and Neck

Volumn 38, Issue , 2016, Pages E221-E226

  Luryi, Alexander L ^a   Chen, Michelle M ^b   Mehra, Saral ^a   Roman, Sanziana A ^b   Sosa, Julie A ^b,c,d   Judson, Benjamin L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

30 day mortality; head and neck cancer; National Cancer Data Base (NCDB); oral cancer; readmission

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; COMORBIDITY; COMORBIDITY ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY RISK; MOUTH CANCER; NECK DISSECTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; VERY ELDERLY; MORTALITY; MOUTH TUMOR; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK FACTOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, SQUAMOUS CELL; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84973441761     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.23973     Document Type: Article

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