Travel distance and health outcomes for scheduled surgery

Medical Care

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 250-257

  Chou, ShinYi ^a,b   Deily, Mary E ^a   Li, Suhui ^c  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CABG; Hospital quality; Outcomes; Regionalization; Scheduled surgery; Travel distance; United States

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT HARM; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TRAVEL; TRAVEL DISTANCE; UNITED STATES; AGE; COMORBIDITY; MORTALITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; PENNSYLVANIA; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84892890912     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000082     Document Type: Article

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