Community income and surgical rates in the Netherlands
Background: The study describes variations in use of surgical procedures by community income in the Netherlands. From the literature it is known that surgical rates have a socioeconomic gradient. Both positive and negative associations of socioeconomic factors of patients (for example, income, education) with surgical rates have been reported. The question raised here is: how do (possible) socioeconomic variations in surgery in the Netherlands compare with variations observed elsewhere? Data and Methods: The data comprised Dutch hospital discharges and population estimates for 1999. Socioecono... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | TEXT |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2003 |
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British Medical Journal Publishing Group
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Schlagwörter: | Research reports |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26807184 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://jech.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/57/7/519 |