Racial and age disparities persist in immediate breast reconstruction: an updated analysis of 48,564 patients from the 2005 to 2011 American College of Surgeons National Surgery Quality Improvement Program data sets

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 96-101

  Butler, Paris D ^a   Nelson, Jonas A ^a   Fischer, John P ^a   Wink, Jason D ^a   Chang, Benjamin ^a   Fosnot, Joshua ^a   Wu, Liza C ^a   Serletti, Joseph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast Reconstruction; Health care disparity; NSQIP

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ANCESTRY GROUP; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84953234778     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2015.08.025     Document Type: Article

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