National Trends and Factors Associated with Hospital Costs Following Thyroid Surgery

Thyroid

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 823-829

  Biron, Vincent L ^a   Bang, Heejung ^b   Farwell, D Gregory ^b   Bewley, Arnaud F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID SURGERY; THYROIDECTOMY; WOUND INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THYROID DISEASES; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR MODELS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THYROID DISEASES; THYROIDECTOMY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84936952761     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: 15579077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2014.0495     Document Type: Article

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