Quality of Colon Cancer Outcomes in Hospitals with a High Percentage of Medicaid Patients

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 197-204

  Rhoads, Kim F ^a   Ackerson, Leland K ^c,d   Jha, Ashish K ^c   Dudley, R Adams ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURGERY; COLON CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM CANCER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 48949116100     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2008.02.014     Document Type: Article

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