Payer status and treatment paradigm for acute cholecystitis

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 147, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 453-458

  Greenstein, Alexander J ^a   Moskowitz, Alan ^a   Gelijns, Annetine C ^b   Egorova, Natalia N ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS, ACUTE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; PRIVATE SECTOR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861371322     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2011.1702     Document Type: Article

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