Neighborhoods matter: Use of hospitals with worse outcomes following total knee replacement by patients from vulnerable populations

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 182-187

  Losina, Elena ^a,b   Wright, Elizabeth A ^b,c   Kessler, Courtenay L ^b   Barrett, Jane A ^d   Fossel, Anne H ^b   Creel, Alisha H ^b   Mahomed, Nizar N ^e   Baron, John A ^d   Katz, Jeffrey N ^b,c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; URBAN AREA;

AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COHORT STUDIES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 33846450643     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.167.2.182     Document Type: Article

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