Racial/ethnic disparities in perioperative outcomes of major procedures: Results from the national surgical quality improvement program

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 262, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 955-964

  Ravi, Praful ^a   Sood, Akshay ^b,c   Schmid, Marianne ^c   Abdollah, Firas ^b   Sammon, Jesse D ^b   Sun, Maxine ^d   Klett, Dane E ^b   Varda, Briony ^c   Peabody, James O ^b   Menon, Mani ^b   Kibel, Adam S ^c   Nguyen, Paul L ^c   Trinh, Quoc Dien ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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

Author keywords

ACS NSQIP; Cancer surgery; Ethnicity; Major noncancer surgery; Perioperative outcomes; Race

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON RESECTION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84948711497     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000001078     Document Type: Article

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