Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Volume 207, Issue 2 , Pages 197-204 , August 2008

Quality of Colon Cancer Outcomes in Hospitals with a High Percentage of Medicaid Patients

  • Kim F. Rhoads, MD, MS, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Stanford University, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence address: Kim F Rhoads, MD, MS, MPH, Department of Surgery, Colorectal Section, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Dr, Ste H3680F, Stanford, CA 94305.
    • ,
  • Leland K. Ackerson, ScD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
    • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA.
    • ,
  • Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • R. Adams Dudley, MD, MBA

      Affiliations

    • Philip R Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, San Francisco, CA

Received 19 December 2007 ,Revised 2 February 2008 ,Accepted 12 February 2008.

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PII: S1072-7515(08)00191-9

doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2008.02.014

Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Volume 207, Issue 2 , Pages 197-204 , August 2008

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