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Insurance Status, Not Race, is Associated With Use of Minimally Invasive Surgical Approach for Rectal Cancer
- Source :
- Annals of Surgery. 265:774-781
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2017.
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Abstract
- Objective:To determine the impact of race and insurance on use of minimally invasive (MIS) compared with open techniques for rectal cancer in the United States.Background:Race and socioeconomic status have been implicated in disparities of rectal cancer treatment.Methods:Adults undergoing MIS (lapar
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test
Colorectal cancer
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
General surgery
Retrospective cohort study
medicine.disease
Proctoscopy
Surgery
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
otorhinolaryngologic diseases
medicine
Adenocarcinoma
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
Risk assessment
business
Socioeconomic status
Colectomy
Cohort study
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00034932
- Volume :
- 265
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Annals of Surgery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........d4d87924805382039df1742ba20f712b
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1097/sla.0000000000001781