Can Surgeons Adequately Capture Adverse Events Using the Spinal Adverse Events Severity System (SAVES) and OrthoSAVES?

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 475, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 253-260

  Chen, Brian P ^a   Garland, Katie ^a   Roffey, Darren M ^b,c   Poitras, Stephane ^a,b   Dervin, Geoffrey ^b   Lapner, Peter ^b   Phan, Philippe ^b,c   Wai, Eugene K ^b,c   Kingwell, Stephen P ^b   Beaulé, Paul E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DURAL TEAR; DYSPHAGIA; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FALLING; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FEVER; HARDWARE MALPOSITION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEMATOMA; HIP SURGERY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOTENSION; KNEE SURGERY; LIQUORRHEA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MENINGOCELE; MENINX DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE SPASM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NURSE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON; ORTHOPEDIC SURGICAL ADVERSE EVENTS SEVERITY SYSTEM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PERONEUS NERVE PARALYSIS; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SHOULDER SURGERY; SKIN INJURY; SPINAL ADVERSE EVENTS SEVERITY SYSTEM; SPINE SURGERY; URINE RETENTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINE; SURGERY;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINE;

EID: 84981156675     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-016-5021-y     Document Type: Article

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