Primary Payer Status Affects Mortality for Major Surgical Operations
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Primary payer status affects mortality for major surgical operations.
OBJECTIVES Medicaid and Uninsured populations are a significant focus of current healthcare reform. We hypothesized that outcomes following major surgical operations in the United States is dependent on primary payer status. METHODS From 2003 to 2007, 893,658 major surgical operations were evaluated using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) database: lung resection, esophagectomy, colectomy...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Surgery
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0003-4932
DOI: 10.1097/sla.0b013e3181e8fd75