Trends in open abdominal surgery in the United States-Observations from 9,950,759 discharges using the 2009-2013 National Inpatient Sample (NIS) datasets.

Authors

Martin J Carney
Jason M Weissler, George Washington University
Justin P Fox
Michael G Tecce
Jesse Y Hsu
John P Fischer

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

8-1-2017

Student Program

MD

Journal

American Journal of Surgery

Volume

214

Issue

2

Inclusive Pages

287-292

DOI

10.1016/j.amjsurg.2017.01.001

Keywords

Abdomen; Cross-Sectional Studies; Databases, Factual; Female; Herniorrhaphy; Humans; Incisional Hernia; Male; Middle Aged; Patient Discharge; Surgical Procedures, Operative; Time Factors; United States

APA Citation

Carney, M., Weissler, J., Fox, J., Tecce, M., Hsu, J., & Fischer, J. (2017). Trends in open abdominal surgery in the United States-Observations from 9,950,759 discharges using the 2009-2013 National Inpatient Sample (NIS) datasets.. American Journal of Surgery, 214 (2). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2017.01.001

Peer Reviewed

1