Journal article
Incidence and impact of adverse effects of medical care on complications in patients who underwent excision of cervical lymph nodes
Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology and oral radiology, Vol.118(3), pp.271-277
09/2014
DOI: 10.1016/j.oooo.2014.04.015
PMID: 24984810
Abstract
To determine the prevalence and impact of adverse effects of medical care in patients who underwent excision of cervical lymph nodes.
Data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample for the years 2009 and 2010 were used. The outcome variables were complications. The independent variables were occurrence of adverse effects of medical care and adverse effects of drugs/medication used in therapeutic use during hospitalization.
A total of 48,413 hospitalizations involved excision of cervical lymph nodes. The mean age was 59 years. Males constituted 64.2% of hospitalizations. Adverse effects of medical care occurred in 9.5% of hospitalizations, and adverse effects due to therapeutic use of medications occurred in 1.8%. Frequently occurring complications included postoperative pneumonia (4.2%), hemorrhagic complications (3.5%), other infections (1.7%), cardiac complications (1.5%), bacterial infections (1.5%), respiratory complications (1.4%), nonhealing wounds (1.3%), septicemia (1.2%), and mycoses (1.2%).
Occurrence of adverse effects of medical care was associated with high odds for multiple complications.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Incidence and impact of adverse effects of medical care on complications in patients who underwent excision of cervical lymph nodes
- Creators
- Veerasathpurush Allareddy - Associate Professor, University of Iowa College of Dentistry, Iowa City, IA, USA. Electronic address: veerasathpurush-allareddy@uiowa.eduSatheesh Elangovan - Assistant Professor, Department of Periodontics, University of Iowa College of Dentistry, Iowa City, IA, USASteven L Fletcher - Assistant Professor and Residency Program Director, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USAVivek Subbiah - Assistant Professor, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USASankeerth Rampa - Graduate student, Texas A&M University Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health, College Station, TX, USARomesh Nalliah - Instructor, Department of Global Health, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA, USAMin Kyeong Lee - Advanced graduate student, Department of Developmental Biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA, USAVeerajalandhar Allareddy - Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric Critical Care, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology and oral radiology, Vol.118(3), pp.271-277
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.oooo.2014.04.015
- PMID
- 24984810
- ISSN
- 2212-4403
- eISSN
- 2212-4411
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/2014
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics; Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery; Periodontics
- Record Identifier
- 9984065812502771
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