Racial variation in the use of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the department of veterans affairs medical system

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 188, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 604-622

  Arozullah, Ahsan M ^a,b   Ferreira, M Rosario ^c   Bennett, Russell L ^d   Gilman, Stuart ^d   Henderson, William G ^b   Daley, Jennifer ^a,e,f   Khuri, Shukri ^a,e,g   Bennett, Charles L ^c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Hines VA Coop Studs Prog C   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VA Employee Education System   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; COMORBIDITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 0032997088     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1072-7515(99)00047-2     Document Type: Article

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