Impact of the screening abdominal aortic aneurysms very efficiently (SAAAVE) act on abdominal ultrasonography use among medicare beneficiaries

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 1456-1462

  Shreibati, Jacqueline Baras ^a   Baker, Laurence C ^a,b   Hlatky, Mark A ^a   Mell, Matthew W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICARE; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84868298314     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.4268     Document Type: Article

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