Rural-urban differences in surgical procedures for medicare beneficiaries

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 579-583

  Francis, Mark L ^a   Scaife, Steven L ^b   Zahnd, Whitney E ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGE; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FEMUR; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; INCOME; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; RACE; RURAL AREA; SEX; SPINE FUSION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URBAN AREA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 79955990193     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2010.306     Document Type: Article

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