Impact of Location of Readmission on Outcomes After Major Cancer Surgery

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 319-329

  Stitzenberg, Karyn B ^a,b   Chang, YunKyung ^b   Smith, Angela B ^a,b   Meyers, Michael O ^a,b   Nielsen, Matthew E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SURGERY; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTECTOMY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS RESECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL TIME; VERY ELDERLY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL COST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84986292812     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-016-5528-1     Document Type: Article

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