Unplanned 30-day readmissions in a General Internal Medicine Hospitalist Service at a comprehensive cancer center

Journal of Oncology Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 410-415

  Manzano, Joanna Grace M ^a   Gadiraju, Sahitya ^a   Hiremath, Adarsh ^a   Lin, Heather Yan ^a   Farroni, Jeff ^a   Halm, Josiah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT ASCITES; MALIGNANT PLEURA EFFUSION; METASTASIS; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPTICEMIA; MEDICAL STAFF; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; TRENDS;

AGED; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALISTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84976573685     PISSN: 15547477     EISSN: 1935469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JOP.2014.003087     Document Type: Conference Paper

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