Does payer status matter in predicting penetrating trauma outcomes?

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 227-231

  Taghavi, Sharven ^a   Jayarajan, Senthil N ^a   Duran, Jason M ^b   Gaughan, John P ^b   Pathak, Abhijit ^a   Santora, Thomas A ^a   Willis, Alliric I ^a   Goldberg, Amy J ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STAB WOUND; THROMBOEMBOLISM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PENNSYLVANIA; WOUNDS, PENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864186205     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2012.05.039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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