Racial Disparity in Surgical Mortality after Major Hepatectomy

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 207, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 312-319

  Nathan, Hari ^a   Frederick, Wayne ^b   Choti, Michael A ^a   Schulick, Richard D ^a   Pawlik, Timothy M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LIVER RESECTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); UNITED STATES;

EID: 49749087942     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2008.04.015     Document Type: Article

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