What is the safety of nonemergent operative procedures performed at night? A study of 10,426 operations at an academic tertiary care hospital using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Program improvement database

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 313-318

  Turrentine, Florence E ^a   Wang, Hongkun ^b   Young, Jeffrey S ^a   Calland, James Forrest ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Operative time; Postoperative morbidity; Surgical procedures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL STAFF; OPERATING ROOM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UTILIZATION; WORK SCHEDULE;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; NIGHT CARE; OPERATING ROOMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE; ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 85052488864     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181e49291     Document Type: Article

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