Influence of health insurance, hospital factors and physician volume on receipt of immediate post-mastectomy reconstruction in women with invasive and non-invasive breast cancer

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 535-545

  Hershman, D L ^a,b   Richards, C A ^b   Kalinsky, K ^a   Wilde, E T ^a   Lu, Y S ^b   Ascherman, J A ^a   Neugut, A I ^a,b   Wright, J D ^b  

^a Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast reconstruction; Hospital volume; Insurance

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MASTECTOMY; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; SEPSIS; SHOCK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; WOUND COMPLICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PHYSICIANS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868209789     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-012-2273-4     Document Type: Article

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