Hospital center effect for laparoscopic colectomy among elderly stage I-III colon cancer patients

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 259, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 924-929

  Zheng, Zhiyuan ^a   Hanna, Nader ^b   Onukwugha, Eberechukwu ^a   Bikov, Kaloyan A ^a   Mullins, C Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF PHARMACY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

30 day rehospitalization; colon cancer; hospital center effect; in hospital mortality; laparoscopic colectomy; length of stay; multilevel regression; SEER Medicare

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANCER STAGING; CAUCASIAN; COLON CANCER; COLON RESECTION; COMORBIDITY; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIED PERSON; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEER PROGRAM; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84899489709     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31829d0468     Document Type: Article

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