Payer status, preoperative surveillance, and rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysms in the us medicare population

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1378-1383

  Mell, Matthew W ^a   Baker, Laurence C ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DUAL ELIGIBILITY (HEALTH INSURANCE); FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE ELIGIBILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE SURVEILLANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGE; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; MORTALITY; ODDS RATIO; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POVERTY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; VASCULAR SURGERY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICARE; ODDS RATIO; POVERTY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84905125057     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: 16155947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2014.02.008     Document Type: Article

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