Hospital and geographic variability in thirty-day all-cause mortality following colorectal cancer surgery

Health Services Research

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1145-1164

  Schootman, Mario ^a,b   Lian, Min ^c   Pruitt, Sandi L ^d,e   Deshpande, Anjali D ^b   Hendren, Samantha ^f   Mutch, Matthew ^c   Jeffe, Donna B ^b   Davidson, Nicholas ^c  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; multilevel; neighborhood; poverty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; GEOGRAPHY; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICARE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POVERTY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA;

COLORECTAL CANCER; MULTILEVEL; NEIGHBORHOOD; POVERTY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEER PROGRAM; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84905013684     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12171a     Document Type: Article

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