Association between ethnicity and prostate cancer outcomes across hospital and surgeon volume groups

Health Policy

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 97-106

  Jayadevappa, Ravishankar ^a   Chhatre, Sumedha ^a   Johnson, Jerry C ^a   Malkowicz, Stanley Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Cost; Hospital volume; Mortality; Prostate cancer; Surgeon volume

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SURGEON;

AGED; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIANS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEER PROGRAM; WORKLOAD;

EID: 78651472925     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2010.07.014     Document Type: Article

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