The impact of insurance status on outcomes after surgery for spinal metastases

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 4833-4841

  Dasenbrock, Hormuzdiyar H ^a   Wolinsky, Jean Paul ^b,c   Sciubba, Daniel M ^b,c   Witham, Timothy F ^b,c   Gokaslan, Ziya L ^b,c   Bydon, Ali ^b,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

disparities; insurance status; Medicaid; Nationwide Inpatient Sample; spinal fusion; spinal metastases; spine surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; UNITED STATES; VISCERAL METASTASIS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, PRIVATE; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866516363     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27388     Document Type: Article

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