Seminars in Colon & Rectal Surgery
Volume 18, Issue 1 , Pages 19-24 , March 2007

Complications and Quality of Life After Stoma Surgery: A Review of 16,470 Patients in the UOA Data Registry

  • James W. Fleshman

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  • Michael G. Lewis

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 Fleshman JW and Lewis MG. Complications and Quality of Life After Stoma Surgery: A Review of 16,470 Patients in the UOA Data Registry. Seminars in Colon and Rectal Surgery. 2:66-72, 1991

 Stoma surgery is sufficiently frequent that the specialty of Enterostomal Therapy in nursing has become accepted as a necessity in the care of patients undergoing ostomies. The United Ostomy Association (UOA) was an organization that arose out of the then unmet need for personal and professional help among this group of patients. Recently the national organization was disbanded (Dis Colon Rectum 49:1462-1463, 2006); the local and regional groups will persist. This Seminars article extracts data from an administrative database with an enormous number of patients; the information contained is unique and may never be duplicated.

PII: S1043-1489(06)00113-8

doi: 10.1053/j.scrs.2006.12.006

Seminars in Colon & Rectal Surgery
Volume 18, Issue 1 , Pages 19-24 , March 2007

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