Mentally ill medicare patients less likely than others to receive certain types of surgery

Health Affairs

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1307-1315

  Li, Yue ^a   Cai, Xueya ^a   Du, Hang ^a   Glance, Laurent G ^b   Lyness, Jeffrey M ^a   Cram, Peter ^a   Mukamel, Dana B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MENTAL DISEASE; STIGMA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; REFERENCE VALUES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REGISTRIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 79960236310     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2010.1084     Document Type: Article

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