Differences and similarities between rural and urban operations

Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 589-596

  Galandiuk, Susan ^a   Mahid, Suhal S ^a   Polk Jr , Hiram C ^a   Turina, Matthias ^a   Rao, Mohan ^b   Lewis, John N ^c  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b Trover Clinic   (United States)

^c Health Care Excel of Kentucky Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COLON RESECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ENDOSCOPY; HEPATOBILIARY SCINTISCANNING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RECTUM RESECTION; REOPERATION; RURAL AREA; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE; URBAN AREA; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; COLON; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RECTUM; REOPERATION; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; SURGERY; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 33748975700     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2006.07.010     Document Type: Article

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