Morbidity and mortality of radical prostatectomy differs by insurance status.

  • Quoc-Dien Trinh
  • Jan Schmitges
  • Maxine Sun
  • Jesse Sammon
  • Shahrokh F Shariat
  • Kevin Zorn
  • Shyam Sukumar
  • Marco Bianchi
  • Paul Perrotte
  • Markus Graefen
  • Craig G Rogers
  • James O Peabody
  • Mani Menon
  • Pierre I Karakiewicz

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Abstract

Private insurance status may favorably affect various health outcomes including those associated with radical prostatectomy (RP). We explored the effect of insurance status on 5 short-term RP outcomes.

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Original languageEnglish
Article number7
ISSN0008-543X
Publication statusPublished - 2012
pubmed 22009603