Surgical Procedures, Operative - Mortality
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Does the need for noncardiac surgery during ventricular assist device therapy impact clinical outcome?

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: The role of the ventricular assist device (VAD) in the management of heart failure is expanding. Despite its success, the clinical course for patients requiring noncardiac surgery (NCS) during VAD support is not well described. The ... Read more...

Variation in hospital mortality associated with inpatient surgery.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Hospital mortality that is associated with inpatient surgery varies widely. Reducing rates of postoperative complications, the current focus of payers and regulators, may be one approach to reducing mortality. However, effective ... Read more...

Standardised metrics for global surgical surveillance.

24 Sep 2009 Public health surveillance relies on standardised metrics to evaluate disease burden and health system performance. Such metrics have not been developed for surgical services despite increasing volume, substantial cost, and high rates of death and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Surgical Procedures, Operative - Mortality'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Does the need for noncardiac surgery during ventricular assist device therapy impact clinical outcome? 29 Sep 2009
• Variation in hospital mortality associated with inpatient surgery--an S.O.S. 29 Sep 2009
• Variation in hospital mortality associated with inpatient surgery. 29 Sep 2009
• Standardised metrics for global surgical surveillance. 24 Sep 2009
• Redefining geriatric preoperative assessment using frailty, disability and co-morbidity. 30 Aug 2009
• Time-of-day effects on surgical outcomes in the private sector: a retrospective cohort study. 22 Jul 2009
• [Boom in geriatric surgery. Eliminating fear of the knife in the elderly] 21 Jul 2009
• Assessing surgical quality using administrative and clinical data sets: a direct comparison of the University HealthSystem Consortium Clinical Database and the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program data set. 5 Jul 2009
• Evolution of the surgeon-volume, patient-outcome relationship. 29 Jun 2009
• The obesity paradox: body mass index and outcomes in patients undergoing nonbariatric general surgery. 29 Jun 2009
• Outcomes of perioperative beta-blockade in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery: a meta-analysis. 14 Jun 2009
• Outcome--more than just operative mortality. 13 Jun 2009
• Characterization of post-operative risk associated with prior drug-eluting stent use. 30 May 2009
• Mortality in medicare patients undergoing surgery in July in teaching hospitals. 30 May 2009
• Patient safety and surgical training: an unhealthy relationship? 30 May 2009
• Surgical outcomes in American Indian veterans: a closer look. 30 May 2009
• A surgical safety checklist. 26 May 2009
• A surgical safety checklist. 26 May 2009
• Does de-escalation of antibiotic therapy for ventilator-associated pneumonia affect the likelihood of recurrent pneumonia or mortality in critically ill surgical patients? 29 Apr 2009
• Predictors of cardiac events in high-risk patients undergoing emergency surgery. 12 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Surgical Procedures, Operative'

Definition: Operations carried out for the correction of deformities and defects, repair of injuries, and diagnosis and cure of certain diseases. (Taber, 18th ed.)

Descriptor UI: D013514

Alternative terms: Surgical Procedures, Operative; Operative Surgical Procedure; Operative Surgical Procedures; Procedures, Operative Surgical; Surgical Procedure, Operative; Operative Procedures; Operative Procedure; Procedure, Operative; Procedures, Operative; Procedure, Operative Surgical; Surgery, Ghost; Ghost Surgery;

Related Mesh Headings: Intraoperative Complications; Operating Rooms; Postoperative Complications; Reoperation; General Surgery;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; education; legislation & jurisprudence; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; rehabilitation; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics;

Tree Number: E04;

Online Note: pre-explosion = SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE (PX)

History Note: 98(63)

Technical Notes: not the field nor specialty ( = GENERAL SURGERY); only the surgery patient or surgical procedures; prefer /surg with organs or disease; /instrum = SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS or SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; surgical injury = SURGICAL INJURIES see INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS: see TN 179; /hist = GENERAL SURGERY /hist; differentiation from GENERAL SURGERY: Manual 26.15+; unnecessary surgery = SURGERY, UNNECESSARY see UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES (IM) + specific surg procedure (IM); SECOND-LOOK SURGERY and REOPERATION are also available