Impact of race and socioeconomic status on presentation and management of ventral hernias

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 776-780

  Bowman, Kimberly ^a   Telem, Dana A ^a   Hernandez Rosa, Jonatan ^a   Stein, Natalie ^a   Williams, Ruth ^a   Divino, Celia M ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH DISPARITY; HERNIA INCARCERATION; HERNIA STRANGULATION; HERNIOPLASTY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESH SLING; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SOCIAL STATUS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; ACUTE DISEASE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; COMPLICATION; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HERNIA, VENTRAL; HISPANIC; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HERNIA, VENTRAL; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PATIENT READMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL CLASS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955595287     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2010.141     Document Type: Article

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