The impact of surgical volume on racial disparity in thyroid and parathyroid surgery

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2733-2739

  Noureldine, Salem I ^a   Abbas, Ali ^b,c   Tufano, Ralph P ^a   Srivastav, Sudesh ^c   Slakey, Douglas P ^b   Friedlander, Paul ^b   Kandil, Emad ^b  

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

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ANCESTRY GROUP; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROIDECTOMY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; LOW VOLUME HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HOSPITALS, LOW-VOLUME; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID NEOPLASMS; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIALTIES, SURGICAL; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 84905101693     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-014-3610-0     Document Type: Article

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