Racial disparities in the surgical management of intractable temporal lobe epilepsy in the United States: A population-based analysis

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 577-583

  McClelland III, Shearwood ^a   Guo, Hongfei ^b   Okuyemi, Kolawole S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMAN; INCOME; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; RACE; SURGEON; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952142589     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2010.86     Document Type: Article

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