Downwardly mobile: The accidental cost of being uninsured

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1006-1011

  Rosen, Heather ^a,b   Saleh, Fady ^a,c   Lipsitz, Stuart ^a   Rogers Jr , Selwyn O ^a   Gawande, Atul A ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMORBIDITY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ADULT; AGED; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INSURANCE COVERAGE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PROBABILITY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REFERENCE VALUES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRAUMA CENTERS; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 72749108168     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2009.195     Document Type: Article

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