Early warning score: An indicator of adverse outcomes in postoperative patients on a gynecologic oncology service

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 105-108

  Smith, Haller J ^a   Pasko, Daniel N ^a   Haygood, Christen L Walters ^b   Boone, Jonathan D ^b   Harper, Lorie M ^c   Straughn, J Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse outcomes; Early warning score

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER PATIENT; CHI SQUARE TEST; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EARLY WARNING SCORE; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY CANCER; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPID RESPONSE TEAM; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REOPERATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREND STUDY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84990237374     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2016.08.153     Document Type: Article

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