Racial disparities in cholecystectomy rates during hospitalizations for acute gallstone pancreatitis: A national survey

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 103, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2301-2307

  Nguyen, Geoffrey C ^a,b   Tuskey, Anne ^b   Jagannath, Sanjay B ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GALLSTONE PANCREATITIS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CALCULATION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RACISM; RISK; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GALLSTONES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 50649121295     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2008.01949.x     Document Type: Article

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