Small area variation in endoscopic sinus surgery rates among the medicare population

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 253-257

  Venkatraman, Giri ^a   Likosky, Donald S ^a   Morrison, Daniel ^a   Zhou, Weiping ^a   Finlayson, Samuel R G ^a   Goodman, David C ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MEDICARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RHINOSINUSITIS; RURAL AREA; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; INCIDENCE; MALE; MANPOWER; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICARE; OTOLARYNGOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 79953064092     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 1538361X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archoto.2011.17     Document Type: Article

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