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Racial variation in the use of life-sustaining treatments among patients who die after major elective surgery

Year: 2014

Type: article

Study design: Observational Study

Source: The American Journal of Surgery

DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2014.08.025

Authors: Roland A. Hernandez, Nathanael D. Hevelone, Lenny Lopez, Samuel R.G. Finlayson, Eva Chittenden, Zara Cooper

Institutions: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, University of Utah

Language: English

Topic: Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Klarman Family Foundation, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

Awards: G1247956922, G1878431419, Association of Acculturation with Type 2 Diabetes Risk Among US Latinos, G658158409

OpenAlex ID: W2020051582

FWCI: 2.752

Cites: 32

Cited by: 28

Related to: 10