Pricing of surgeries for colon cancer: Patient severity and market factors

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 5741-5748

  Dor, Avi ^a   Koroukian, Siran ^b   Xu, Fang ^b   Stulberg, Jonah ^b   Delaney, Conor ^c   Cooper, Gregory ^c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

colon cancer; laparoscopy; medical prices; surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; COLON CANCER; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HERFINDAHL HIRSCHMAN INDEX; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO;

COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84869498427     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27573     Document Type: Article

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