Disparities in access to care at high-volume institutions for uro-oncologic procedures

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 4421-4426

  Trinh, Quoc Dien ^a   Sun, Maxine ^b   Sammon, Jesse ^a   Bianchi, Marco ^b   Sukumar, Shyam ^a   Ghani, Khurshid R ^a   Jeong, Wooju ^a   Dabaja, Ali ^a   Shariat, Shahrokh F ^c   Perrotte, Paul ^b   Agarwal, Piyush K ^a   Rogers, Craig G ^a   Peabody, James O ^a   Menon, Mani ^a   Karakiewicz, Pierre I ^b  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

disparities; income; insurance; race; sex; urologic oncology

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CYSTECTOMY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL CARE; INCOME; MEDICARE; NEPHRECTOMY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; PROSTATECTOMY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOSPITALS; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; MALE; MEDICARE; NEPHRECTOMY; PROSTATECTOMY; UNITED STATES; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84863996890     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27440     Document Type: Article

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