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Postoperative complications following colectomy for ulcerative colitis: A validation study

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Title
Postoperative complications following colectomy for ulcerative colitis: A validation study
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BMC Gastroenterology, April 2012
DOI 10.1186/1471-230x-12-39
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Authors

Christopher Ma, Marcelo Crespin, Marie-Claude Proulx, Shanika DeSilva, James Hubbard, Martin Prusinkiewicz, Geoffrey C Nguyen, Remo Panaccione, Subrata Ghosh, Robert P Myers, Hude Quan, Gilaad G Kaplan

Abstract

Ulcerative colitis (UC) patients failing medical management require colectomy. This study compares risk estimates for predictors of postoperative complication derived from administrative data against that of chart review and evaluates the accuracy of administrative coding for this population.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 48 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 8 17%
Other 6 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 13%
Researcher 6 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 6%
Other 10 21%
Unknown 9 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 22 46%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 6%
Computer Science 2 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 4%
Philosophy 1 2%
Other 5 10%
Unknown 13 27%