Racial disparities in the management of hospitalized patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension [9]

Hepatology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 358-360

  Myers, Robert P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PARACENTESIS; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VARICOSIS;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38649129885     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.22008     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

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