Racial disparities in operative outcomes after major cancer surgery in the United States

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 634-643

  Sukumar, Shyam ^a   Ravi, Praful ^b   Sood, Akshay ^c   Gervais, Mai Kim ^d   Hu, Jim C ^e   Kim, Simon P ^f   Menon, Mani ^c   Roghmann, Florian ^d   Sammon, Jesse D ^c   Sun, Maxine ^d   Trinh, Vincent Q ^d   Trinh, Quoc Dien ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^d CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CAUCASIAN; COLON RESECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYSTECTOMY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG RESECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PANCREAS RESECTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTATECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COLECTOMY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CYSTECTOMY; ESOPHAGECTOMY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PANCREATECTOMY; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925541238     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-014-2863-x     Document Type: Article

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