Gender, race, and socioeconomic status affects outcomes after lung cancer resections in the united states

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 434-439

  Lapar, Damien J ^a   Bhamidipati, Castigliano M ^a   Harris, David A ^a   Kozower, Benjamin D ^a   Jones, David R ^a   Kron, Irving L ^a   Ailawadi, Gorav ^a   Lau, Christine L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANCER SURGERY; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; GENDER; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCOME; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; LUNG CANCER; LUNG COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NATIONWIDE INPATIENT SAMPLE; NEGRO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PACIFIC ISLANDER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960957296     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.04.048     Document Type: Article

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