Characteristics of patients and predictors of in-hospital mortality after hospitalization for head and neck cancers

Cancer

Volumn 106, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2382-2388

  Allareddy, Veerasathpurush ^a   Konety, Badrinath R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancers; Hospital characteristics; In hospital mortality; Insurance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; CALIFORNIA; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33646860136     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.21899     Document Type: Article

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