Primary payer status affects mortality for major surgical operations

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 252, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 544-550

  Lapar, Damien J ^a   Bhamidipati, Castigliano M ^a   Mery, Carlos M ^a   Stukenborg, George J ^a   Jones, David R ^a   Schirmer, Bruce D ^a   Kron, Irving L ^a   Ailawadi, Gorav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANEMIA; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CHRONIC BLOOD LOSS ANEMIA; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COLLAGEN DISEASE; COLON RESECTION; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DATA BASE; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG ABUSE; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INCOME; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS RESECTION; PARALYSIS; PATIENT; PEPTIC ULCER; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; PSYCHOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOLID TUMOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL COST; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956227292     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181e8fd75     Document Type: Article

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