Racial and Geographic Variations in Colectomy Rates Among Hospitalized Ulcerative Colitis Patients

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Nguyen, Geoffrey C ^a   LaVeist, Thomas A ^b   Gearhart, Susan ^c   Bayless, Theodore M ^a   Brant, Steven R ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CAUCASIAN; COLON RESECTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMERGENCY CARE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845298046     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2006.09.026     Document Type: Article

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