National trends and determinants of hospitalization costs and lengths-of-stay for uterine fibroids procedures

Journal of Health Care Finance

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1-16

  Becker, Edmund R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fibroid tumors; Hospital costs; Hysterectomy; Inpatient treatment; Lengths of stay

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART FAILURE; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOMECTOMY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; UTERUS MYOMA; VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH RESOURCES; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LEIOMYOMA; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 34248523867     PISSN: 10786767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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