Racial disparities in clinical and economic outcomes from thyroidectomy

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 246, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1083-1091

  Sosa, Julie Ann ^a   Mehta, Pritesh J ^a   Wang, Tracy S ^a   Yeo, Heather L ^a   Roman, Sanziana A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; THYROID DISEASE; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID DISEASES; THYROIDECTOMY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36549007471     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31812eecc4     Document Type: Article

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