Cranial surgery among medicare beneficiaries

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 40-46

  Buczko, William ^a,b  

^a Centers Medicare and Medicaid Serv   (United States)

^b Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Disabled; Elderly; Head injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANEURYSM CLIP; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN TUMOR; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; SKULL SURGERY; SPEECH THERAPY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 13544258846     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000149332.17597.36     Document Type: Article

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