Minorities Are Less Likely to Receive Autologous Blood Transfusion for Major Elective Orthopaedic Surgery

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 472, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3559-3566

  Menendez, Mariano E ^a   Ring, David ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; BLOOD DONOR; COST CONTROL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; INCOME; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT PREFERENCE; SPINE FUSION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANCESTRY GROUP; CAUCASIAN; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HISPANIC; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INCOME; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84919863044     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-014-3793-5     Document Type: Article

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