Cancer care in the pediatric surgical patient: A paradigm to abolish volume-outcome disparities in surgery

Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 76-85

  Gutierrez, Juan C ^a   Koniaris, Leonidas G ^a   Cheung, Michael C ^a   Byrne, Margaret M ^a   Fischer, Anne C ^b   Sola, Juan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROSURGERY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITY SIZE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEUROBLASTOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WILMS TUMOR;

EID: 57149104101     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2008.08.011     Document Type: Article

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