Racial disparities in medicaid patients after brain tumor surgery

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 57-61

  Mukherjee, Debraj ^a   Patil, Chirag G ^a   Todnem, Nathan ^b   Ugiliweneza, Beatrice ^b   Nuño, Miriam ^a   Kinsman, Michael ^b   Lad, Shivanand P ^c   Boakye, Maxwell ^b  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain tumor surgery; Complications; Medicaid; Mortality; Racial disparities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CRANIOTOMY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT MENINGIOMA; MEDICAID; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND COMPLICATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CRANIOTOMY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871434257     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: 15322653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2012.05.014     Document Type: Article

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