Lower extremity vascular injuries: Increased mortality for minorities and the uninsured?

Surgery

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 656-664

  Crandall, Marie ^a   Sharp, Douglas ^a   Brasel, Karen ^b   Carnethon, Mercedes ^a   Haider, Adil ^c   Esposito, Thomas ^d  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CHILD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY SCALE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LEG DISEASE; LOWER EXTREMITY VASCULAR INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MINORITY GROUP; MORTALITY; NATIONAL PRACTITIONER DATA BANK; NATIONAL TRAUMA DATA BANK; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACISM; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGEON; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; MINORITY HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SYSTEM INJURIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054106042     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2011.07.052     Document Type: Article

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