Effect of race and insurance status on presentation, treatment, and mortality in patients undergoing surgery for diverticulitis

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 143, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1160-1165

  Lidor, Anne O ^a,c   Gearhart, Susan L ^a   Wu, Albert W ^a,b   Chang, David C ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; COLOSTOMY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVERTICULITIS; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INSURANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES; AGED; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; RACE;

AGED; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58149359602     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.143.12.1160     Document Type: Article

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