Disparate use of minimally invasive surgery in benign surgical conditions

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1977-1986

  Ricciardi, Rocco ^a   Selker, Harry P ^a   Baxter, Nancy N ^b   Marcello, Peter W ^a   Roberts, Patricia L ^a   Virnig, Beth A ^c  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Access; Disparity; Laparoscopy; Race; Surgery; Technique

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ULCER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; STOMACH BYPASS; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; APPENDECTOMY; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; FUNDOPLICATION; GASTRIC BYPASS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INCOME; INSURANCE, HEALTH, REIMBURSEMENT; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 51349094608     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-008-0003-0     Document Type: Article

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