The effect of insurance status on outcomes after partial nephrectomy.

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

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Abstract

Privately insured patients may have favorable health outcomes when compared to those covered by federally funded initiatives. This study explored the effect of insurance status on five short-term outcomes after partial nephrectomy (PN).

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number2
ISSN0301-1623
Publication statusPublished - 2012
pubmed 21894468