Safety-net burden hospitals and likelihood of curative-intent surgery for non-small cell lung cancer

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 213, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 633-643

  Virgo, Katherine S ^a,b   Little, Alex G ^c   Fedewa, Stacey A ^a   Chen, Amy Y ^a,b   Flanders, W Dana ^a,b   Ward, Elizabeth M ^a,b  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SEGMENTECTOMY; WEDGE RESECTION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ECONOMICS, HOSPITAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; PNEUMONECTOMY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80055091118     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2011.07.014     Document Type: Article

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