Racial variation in the quality of surgical care for bladder cancer

Cancer

Volumn 120, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1018-1025

  Barocas, Daniel A ^a,b   Alvarez, Joann ^c   Koyama, Tatsuki ^c   Anderson, Christopher B ^a   Gray, Darryl T ^d   Fowke, Jay H ^a   You, Chaochen ^a   Chang, Sam S ^a   Cookson, Michael S ^a   Smith, Joseph A ^a   Penson, David F ^a,b,e  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

^e Tennessee Valley Veterans Administration   (United States)

Author keywords

bladder cancer; health disparities; quality of care; surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTECTOMY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RACISM; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

BLADDER CANCER; HEALTH DISPARITIES; QUALITY OF CARE; SURGERY;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MARYLAND; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84899453976     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.28520     Document Type: Article

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