Trends in endoscopic sinus surgery rates in the medicare population

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 426-430

  Venkatraman, Giridhar ^a   Likosky, Donald S ^a,b   Zhou, Weiping ^b   Finlayson, Samuel R G ^a,b   Goodman, David C ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MEDICARE; OPEN SINUS SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHINOSINUSITIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREND STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASES; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77952509478     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 08864470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archoto.2010.58     Document Type: Article

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