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Surgeon specialization and operative mortality in United States: retrospective analysis

Objective To measure the association between a surgeon’s degree of specialization in a specific procedure and patient mortality. Design Retrospective analysis of Medicare data. Setting US patients aged 66 or older enrolled in traditional fee for service Medicare. Participants 25 152 US surgeons who...

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Autores principales: Sahni, Nikhil R, Dalton, Maurice, Cutler, David M, Birkmeyer, John D, Chandra, Amitabh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4957587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27444190
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i3571