Despite overall improvement in surgical outcomes since 2000, Income-related disparities persist

Health Affairs

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1773-1780

  Qasim, Mehwish ^a   Andrews, Roxanne M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Healthcare Research and Quality   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CRANIOTOMY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEMATOMA; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; INCOME; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS RESECTION; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; UNITED STATES; WOUND DEHISCENCE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POVERTY; STANDARDS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POVERTY; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84885395802     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2013.0194     Document Type: Article

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