What happens to racial and ethnic minorities after cancer surgery at american college of surgeons national surgical quality improvement program hospitals?

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 214, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 539-547

  Parsons, Helen M ^a,b   Habermann, Elizabeth B ^b   Stain, Steven C ^c   Vickers, Selwyn M ^b   Al Refaie, Waddah B ^b  

^a Division of Health Policy and Management   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

ACS; American College of Surgeons; American Society of Anesthesiologists; ASA; length of stay; LOS; National Surgical Quality Improvement Program; NSQIP; odds ratio; OR

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; ESKIMO; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MINORITY GROUP; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RACE DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859209504     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2011.12.024     Document Type: Article

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