United States hospital admissions for lumbar spinal stenosis: Racial and ethnic differences, 2000 through 2009

Spine

Volumn 38, Issue 26, 2013, Pages 2272-2278

  Skolasky, Richard L ^a   Maggard, Anica M ^a   Thorpe, Roland J ^b   Wegener, Stephen T ^a   Riley III, Lee H ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

disparities; ethnicity; hospitalization rates; lumbar spinal stenosis; race

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCOME; LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SPINE SURGERY; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ADMISSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL STENOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891558951     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3182a3d392     Document Type: Article

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