How do elderly patients decide where to go for major surgery? Telephone interview survey

British Medical Journal

Volumn 331, Issue 7520, 2005, Pages 821-824

  Schwartz, Lisa M ^a   Woloshin, Steven ^a   Birkmeyer, John D ^b  

^a VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b 2101 Taubman Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM SURGERY; CANCER SURGERY; CYSTECTOMY; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LUNG SURGERY; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STOMACH SURGERY; TELEPHONE; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 26644474095     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.38614.449016.DE     Document Type: Review

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