Health Care Utilization Among Surgically Treated Medicare Beneficiaries With Lung Cancer

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1749-1756

  Farjah, Farhood ^a   Wood, Douglas E ^a   Varghese, Thomas K ^a   Massarweh, Nader N ^a   Symons, Rebecca Gaston ^a   Flum, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER PATIENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICARE; PNEUMONECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEER PROGRAM; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 71649115151     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.08.006     Document Type: Article

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