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Authors: O'Brien JA, Caro JJ, Getsios D
Title: Managing meningococcal disease in the United States: Hospital case characteristics and costs by age
Publication: Value Health 9(4):236-243
Date: Jul-Aug. 2006

Authors: Odetola FO, Tilford JM, Davis MM
Title: Variation in the use of intracranial-pressure monitoring and mortality in critically ill children with meningitis in the United States
Publication: Pediatrics 117(6):1893-1900
Date: June 2006

Authors: Olfson M, Marcus S, Sackeim HA, et al.
Title: Use of ECT for the inpatient treatment of recurrent major depression
Publication: Am J Psychiatry 155(1):22-9
Date: 1998
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Authors: Olfson M, Gameroff MJ, Marcus SC, et al.
Title: National trends in hospitalization of youth with intentional self-inflicted injuries
Publication: Am J Psychiatry 162(7):1328-35
Date: 2005
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Authors: O'Neill L, Dexter F
Title: Tactical increases in operating room block time based on financial data and market growth estimates from data envelopment analysis
Publication: Anesth Analg 104(2):355-68
Date: 2007

Authors: Owens P, et al.
Title: Care of Children and Adolescents in U.S. Hospitals
Publication: HCUP Fact Book No. 4. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. AHRQ Publications No. 04-0004
Date: 2003

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Authors: Pacella SJ, Harkins D, Butz D, et al.
Title: Referral patterns and severity distribution of burn care: implications for burn centers and surgical training
Publication: Ann Plast Surg 54(4):412-9
Date: 2005
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Authors: Pacella SJ, Butz DA, Comstock MC, et al.
Title: Hospital volume outcome and discharge disposition of burn patients
Publication: Plast Reconstr Surg 117(4):1296-305; discussion 1306-7
Date: 2006

Authors: Paramore LC, Elixhauser A
Title: Assessment of quality of care for managed care and fee-for-service patients based on analysis of avoidable hospitalizations
Publication: Value in Health 2(4):258-68
Date: 1999

Authors: Panepinto JA, Brousseau DC, Hillery CA, Scott JP
Title: Variation in hospitalizations and hospital length of stay in children with vaso-occlusive crises in sickle cell disease
Publication: Pediatr Blood Cancer 44(2):182-6
Date: 2005

Authors: Patil SP, Krishnan JA, Lechtzin N, & Diette GB
Title: In-hospital mortality following acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Publication: Arch Internal Medicine 163(10):1180-6
Date: 2003
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Authors: Patil PG, Turner DA, Pietrobon R
Title: National trends in surgical procedures for degenerative cervical spine disease: 1990-2000
Publication: Neurosurgery 57:753-8; discussion 753-8
Date: 2005
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Authors: Patil CG, Lad SP, Santarelli J, Boakye M
Title: National inpatient complications and outcomes after surgery for spinal metastasis from 1993-2002
Publication: Cancer
Date: June 2007

Authors: Patwardhan RV, Nanda A
Title: Implanted ventricular shunts in the United States: the billion-dollar-a year cost of hydrocephalus treatment
Publication: Neurosurgery 56(1):139-44
Date: 2005
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Author: Penson DF
Title: Mortality after major surgery for urologic cancers in specialized urology hospitals: are they any better?
Publication: Urol Oncol 24(5):460
Date: Sept-Oct 2006

Authors: Petersen EJ, Reiter ER
Title: Hospital use in the treatment of sleep apnea
Publication: Laryngoscope 114(3):460-6
Date: 2004
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Authors: Pohl HG, Joyce GF, Wise M, Cilento BG Jr.
Title: Vesicoureteral reflux and ureteroceles
Publication: J Urol 177(5):1659-66
Date: 2007

Authors: Polancich S, Restrepo E, Prosser J
Title: Cautious use of administrative data for decubitus ulcer outcome reporting
Publication: Am J Med Qual 21(4):262-8
Date: Jul-Aug 2006

Authors: Polek C, P Klemm, T Hardie, et al.
Title: Asian/Pacific Islander American women: Age and death rates during hospitalization for breast cancer
Publication: Oncology Nursing Forum 31(4):E69-74
Date: 2004

Author: Poleshuck VA
Title: Racial differences in cesareans: an analysis of U.S. 2001 National Inpatient Sample data
Publication: Obstet Gynecol 106(1):197; author reply 197-8
Date: 2005

Authors: Pont SJ, Robbins JM, Bird TM, et al.
Title: Congenital malformations among liveborn infants with trisomies 18 and 13
Publication: Am J Med Genet A 140(16):1749-56
Date: August 2006

Author: Poordad FF
Title: Review article: the burden of hepatic encephalopathy
Publication: Aliment Pharmacol Ther 25 Suppl 1:3-9
Date: 2007

Authors: Poulose BK, Griffin MR, Moore DE, et al.
Title: Risk factors for post-operative mortality in bariatric surgery
Publication: J Surg Res 127(1):1
Date: 2005
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Authors: Poulose BK, Griffin MR, Zhu Y, et al.
Title: National analysis of adverse patient safety for events in bariatric surgery
Publication: Am Surg 71(1):77-84
Date: 2005
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Authors: Poulose BK, Holzman MD, Zhu Y, et al.
Title: National variations in morbid obesity and bariatric surgery use
Publication: J Am Coll Surg 201(1):77-84
Date: 2005
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Authors: Poulose BK, Ray WA, Arbogast PG, et al.
Title: Resident Work Hour Limit and Patient Safety
Publication: Ann Surg 241(6):847-60
Date: 2005
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Authors: Poulose BK, Arbogast PG, Holzman MD
Title: National analysis of in-hospital resource utilization in choledocholithiasis management using propensity scores
Publication: Surg Endosc 20(2):186-90
Date: 2006
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Authors: Pressley JC, Barlow B
Title: Child and adolescent injury as a result of falls from buildings and structures
Publication: Injury Prevention 11:267-73
Date: 2005
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Authors: Quan H, Sundararajan V, Halfon P, et al.
Title: Coding algorithms for defining comorbidities in ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 administrative data
Publication: Medical Care 43:1130-9
Date: 2005
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Authors: Quinlan KP, Sacks JJ
Title: Hospitalizations for dog bite injuries
Publication: JAMA 281(3):227
Date: 1999

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Authors: Radensky PW, Berliner E, Archer JW, & Dournaux SF
Title: Inpatient costs of major cardiovascular events
Publication: Am J Cardiovasc Drugs 1(3):205-7
Date: 2001
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Authors: Rajmil L, Fernandez E, Salas T, et al.
Title: Gender differences in children's hospitalization in Catalonia: another inequality?
Publication: Acta Paediatr 88(9):990-97
Date: 1999
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Authors: Rathore SS, Epstein AJ, Volpp KG, & Krumholz HM
Title: Hospital coronary artery bypass graft surgery volume and patient mortality, 1998-2000
Publication: Ann Surgery 239(1):110-7
Date: 2004
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Authors: Reist C, Mintz J, Albers LJ, et al.
Title: Second-generation antipsychotic exposure and metabolic-related disorders in patients with schizophrenia: an observational pharmacoepidemiology study from 1988 to 2002
Publication: J Clin Psychopharmacol 27(1):46-51
Date: 2007

Authors: Rentz AM, Halpern MT, Bowder R
Title: The impact of candidemia on length of hospital stay, outcome, and overall cost of illness
Publication: Clin Infect Dis 27(4):781-88
Date: 1998
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Authors: Reynolds MG, Holman RC, Curns AT, et al.
Title: Epidemiology of cat-scratch disease hospitalizations among children in the United States
Publication: Pediatr Infect Dis J 24(8):700-4
Date: 2005
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Authors: Ricciardi R, Virnig BA, Madoff RD, Rothenberger DA, Baxter NN
Title: The status of radical proctectomy and sphincter-sparing surgery in the United States
Publication: Dis Colon Rectum
Date: June 2007

Authors: Ritchie JL, Maynard C, Chapko MK, et al.
Title: Association between percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty volumes and outcomes in the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project 1993-1994
Publication: Am J Cardiol 83(4):493-97
Date: 1999
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Authors: Rivard PE, Rosen AK, Carroll JS
Title: Enhancing patient safety through organizational learning: Are patient safety indicators a step in the right direction?
Publication: Health Serv Res 41(4 Pt 2):1633-53
Date: August 2006

Authors: Robbins JM, Tilford JM, Bird TM, et al.
Title: Hospitalizations of newborns with folate-sensitive birth defects before and after fortification of foods with folic acid
Publication: Pediatrics 118(3):906-15
Date: Sept. 2006

Authors: Romano PS, Geppert JJ, Davies S, et al.
Title: A national profile of patient safety in U.S. hospitals
Publication: Health Affairs (Project Hope) 22(2):154-66
Date: 2003
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Authors: Rosen AK, Rivard P, Zhao S, et al.
Title: Evaluating the patient safety indicators: how well do they perform on Veterans Health Administration data?
Publication: Med Care 43(9):873-84
Date: 2005
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Authors: Rovi S, PH Chen, and MS Johnson
Title: The economic burden of hospitalizations associated with child abuse and neglect
Publication: Am J Public Health 94(4):586-90
Date: 2004

Authors: Rudman WJ, Davey D
Title: Identifying domestic violence within inpatient hospital admissions using medical records
Publication: Women and Health 30(4):1-13
Date: 2000
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Author: Rutledge R
Title: Can medical school-affiliated hospitals compete with private hospitals in the age of managed care? An 11-state population based analysis of 351,201 patients undergoing cholecystectomy
Publication: J Am Coll Surg 185(3):207-17
Date: 1997
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Authors: Saleh SS, Hannan EL
Title: Carotid endarterectomy utilization and mortality in 10 states
Publication: Am J Surg 187(1):14-9
Date: 2004
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Authors: Saleh SS, Hannan EL, Ting L
Title: A multistate comparison of patient characteristics, outcomes, and treatment practices in acute myocardial infarction
Publication: Am J Card 96:1190-96
Date: 2005
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Authors: Saleh SS, Szebenyi SE
Title: Resource use of elderly emergency department patients with alcohol-related diagnoses
Publication: J Sub Abuse Treat 29:313-9
Date: 2005
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Authors: Sari N
Title: Do competition and managed care improve quality?
Publication: Health Econ 11:571-84
Date: 2002
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Authors: Saunders BD, Wainess RM, Dimick JB, et al.
Title: Trends in utilization of adrenalectomy in the U.S.: Have indications changed?
Publication: World J Surg 28(11):1169-75
Date: 2004

Authors: Saunders BD, Wainess RM, Dimick JB, et al.
Title: Who performs endocrine operations in the United States?
Publication: Surgery 134(6):924-31; discussion 931
Date: Dec 2003
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Authors: Scales CD Jr, Curtis LH, Norris RD, et al.
Title: Changing gender prevalence of Stone Disease
Publication: J Urol 177(3):979-82. HCUP (04/27/2007) A1-3 Deliverable #142.03: Appendix 1
Date: 2007

Authors: Schneeweiss S, Wang PS, Avorn J, Glynn RJ
Title: Improved comorbidity adjustment for predicting mortality in medicare populations
Publication: Health Serv Res 38(4):1103-20
Date: 2003
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Authors: Schneier AJ, Shields BJ, Hostetler SG, et al.
Title: Incidence of pediatric traumatic brain injury and associated hospital resource utilization in the United States
Publication: Pediatrics 118(2):483-92
Date: August 2006

Authors: Schnitzler MA, Lambert DL, Mundy LM, et al.
Title: Variations in healthcare measures by insurance status for patients receiving ventilator support
Publication: Clin Perform Qual Health Care 6(1):17-22
Date: 1998
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Authors: Schumacher HC, Bateman BT, Boden-Albala B, et al.
Title: Use of thrombolysis in acute ischemic stroke: analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample 1999 to 2004
Publication: Ann Emerg Med
Date: May 2007

Authors: Scully KW, Lyman JA, Stukenborg GJ
Title: Improving quality measurement using multiple data sources
Publication: AMIA Annual Symposiun Proceedings, p. 1001
Date: 2003
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Authors: Sedman A, Harris JM, Schulz K, Remus D, et al.
Title: Relevance of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety Indicators for children's hospitals
Publication: Pediatrics 115(1):135-45
Date: 2005
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Authors: Segal JB, Guallar E, Powe NR.
Title: Autologous blood transfusion in the United States: clinical and nonclinical determinants of use
Publication: Transfusion 41(12):1539-47
Date: 2001
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Authors: Seifeldin R, Hantsch JJ
Title: The economic burden associated with colon cancer in the United States
Publication: Clin Ther 21(8):1370-79
Date: 1999
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Authors: Seifert HA, Howard DL, Silber JH, Jobes DR
Title: Female gender increases the risk of death during hospitalization for pediatric cardiac surgery
Publication: J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 133(3):668-75
Date: 2007

Authors: Sequist TD, Zaslavsky AM, Galloway JM, Ayanian JZ
Title: Cardiac procedure use following acute myocardial infarction among American Indians
Publication: Am Heart J 151(4):909-14
Date: 2005
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Author: Shen JJ
Title: Social economic status and outcome of acute myocardial infarction
Publication: Conference: Health Services Research: Implications for Policy, Delivery and Practice; Washington Hilton and Towers, Washington, DC
Date: 1998, June 22
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Authors: Shen JJ, TT Wan and JB Perlin
Title: An exploration of the complex relationship of socioecologic factors in the treatment and outcomes of acute myocardial infarction in disadvantaged populations
Publication: Health Serv Res 36:711-32
Date: 2001
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Authors: Shen JJ
Title: Severity of illness, treatment environments and outcomes of treating acute myocardial infarction for Hispanic Americans
Publication: Ethn Dis 12(4):488-98
Date: Fall 2002
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Authors: Shen JJ, Washington EL, Aponte-Soto L
Title: Racial disparities in pathogenesis and outcomes for patients with ischemic stroke
Publication: Managed Care Interface 17(3):28-34
Date: 2004

Authors: Shen JJ, Washington EL
Title: Disparities in outcomes among patients with stroke associated with insurance status
Publication: Stroke 38(3):1010-16
Date: 2007

Authors: Shenn JJ, Tymkow C, MacMullen N
Title: Disparities in maternal outcomes among four ethnic populations
Publication: Ethn Dis 15(3):492-7
Date: 2005
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Authors: Shojania KG, EC Burton, KM McDonald, L Goldman
Title: Changes in rates of autopsy-detected diagnostic errors over time: a systematic review
Publication: JAMA 289:2849-56
Date: 2003
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Authors: Siddique R, et al.
Title: A national inpatient cost estimate of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG)-associated aspiration pneumonia
Publication: Am J Manag Care 6(4):490-96
Date: 2000.

Authors: Sills ES, Saini J, Steiner CA, et al.
Title: Abdominal hysterectomy practice patterns in the United States
Publication: Int J Gynaecol Obstet 63(3):277-83
Date: 1998
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Authors: Simonsen L, Morens DM, Elixhauser A, et al.
Title: Effect of rotavirus vaccination programme on trends in admission of infants to hospital for intussusception
Publication: Lancet 358(9289):1224-29
Date: 2001
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Authors: Simonsen L, Viboud C, Elixhauser A, et al.
Title: More on RotaShield and intussusception: the role of age at the time of vaccination
Publication: J Infect Dis 192 Suppl 1:S36-43
Date: 2005
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Authors: Simpson L, Zodet MW, Chevarley FM, et al.
Title: Health care for children and youth in the United States: 2002 report on trends in access, utilization, quality, and expenditures
Publication: Amb Pediatr 4(2):131-53
Date: 2004
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Authors: Simpson L, Owens P, Zodet MW, Chevarley FM, et al.
Title: Health care for children and youth in the United States: annual report on patterns of coverage, utilization, quality, and expenditures by income
Publication: Amb Pediatr 5(1):6-44
Date: 2005
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Authors: Sin AH, Rashidi M, Caldito G, Nanda A
Title: Surgical treatment of myelomeningocele: year 2000 hospitalization, outcome, and cost analysis in the U.S.
Publication: Childs Nerv Syst
Date: June 2007

Authors: Sirovich BE and HG Welch
Title: Cervical cancer screening among women without a cervix
Publication: JAMA 291(24):2990-3
Date: 2004

Authors: Slattery WH, Schwartz MS, Fisher LM, Oppenheimer M
Title: Acoustic neuroma surgical cost and outcome by hospital volume in California
Publication: Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 130(6):726-35
Date: 2005
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Authors: Slonim AD, LaFleur BJ, Ahmed W, & Joseph JG
Title: Hospital-reported medical errors in children
Publication: Pediatrics 111(3):617-21
Date: 2003
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Authors: Slover J, Gibson J, Tosteson T, et al.
Title: Racial and economic disparity and the treatment of pediatric fractures
Publication: J Pediatr Orthop 25(6):717-21
Date: 2005
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Authors: Smink DS, Finkelstein JA, Kleinman K, & Fishman SJ
Title: The effect of hospital volume of pediatric appendectomies on the misdiagnosis of appendicitis in children
Publication: Pediatrics 113(1 Pt 1):18-23
Date: 2004
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Authors: Smink DS, Fishman SJ, Kleinman K, Finkelstein JA
Title: Effects of race, insurance status, and hospital volume on perforated appendicitis in children
Publication: Pediatrics 115(4):920-925
Date: 2005
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Authors: Smith ER, Butler WE, & Barker FG
Title: Craniotomy for resection of pediatric brain tumors in the United States, 1988 to 2000: effects of provider caseloads and progressive centralization and specialization of care
Publication: Neurosurgery 54(3):553-63; discussion:563-5
Date: 2004
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Authors: Smith ER, Butler WE, & Barker FG 2nd
Title: In-hospital mortality rates after ventriculoperitoneal shunt procedures in the U.S., 1998 to 2000: Relation to hospital and surgeon volume of care
Publication: J Neurosurg Spine 100(2):90-7
Date: 2004

Authors: Smith ER, Butler WE, Barker FG, 2nd
Title: Is there a "July phenomenon" in pediatric neurosurgery at teaching hospitals?
Publication: J Neurosurg 105(3 Suppl):169-76
Date: 2006

Authors: Smith JK, McPhee JT, Hill JS, et al.
Title: National outcomes after gastric resection for neoplasm
Publication: Arch Surg 142(4):387-93
Date: 2007

Authors: Solberg LI, CA Lyles, AD Shore, et al.
Title: Is quality free? The relationship between cost and quality across 18 provider groups
Publication: Am J Manag Care 8:413-22
Date: 2002
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Authors: Southern DA, Quan, H, Ghali, WA
Title: Comparison of the Elixhauser and Charlson/Deyo Methods of Comorbidity Measurement in Administrative Data
Publication: Med Care 42(4):355-60
Date: April 2004
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Authors: Souvignet C, G Frebourg, and L Baril
Title: Identifying patients with severe hospital-acquired infections due to staphylococcus aureus by using the healthcare cost and utilization project (HCUP): Problems and pitfalls
Publication: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 25(6):450-1
Date: 2004

Authors: Steiner C, Elixhauser A, Schnaier J
Title: The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project: an overview
Publication: Eff Clin Pract 5(3):143-51
Date: 2002
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Authors: Stern RE, Yueh B, Lewis C, Norton S, Sie KC
Title: Recent epidemiology of pediatric cochlear implantation in the United States: disparity among children of different ethnicity and socioeconomic status
Publication: Laryngoscope 115(1):125-31
Date: 2005
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Authors: Stukenborg GJ, Wagner DP, Connors AF
Title: Comparison of the performance of two comorbidity measures, with and without information from prior hospitalizations
Publication: Med Care 39(7):727-39
Date: 2001
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Authors: Stylopoulos N, Gazelle GS, Rattner DW
Title: Paraesophageal hernias: operation or observation?
Publication: Ann Surgery 236(4):492-501
Date: 2002
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Authors: Stylopoulos N, Gazelle GS, Rattner DW
Title: A cost-utility analysis of treatment options for inguinal hernia in 1,513,008 adult patients
Publication: Surg Endosc 17(2):180-9
Date: 2003
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Author: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Title: National Expenditures for Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Treatment
Publication: Rockville, MD: The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information Research Report. HHS Publication No. SMA 98-3255
Date: 1998
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Authors: Sun B, Emond J, Camargo C
Title: Direct medical costs of syncope-related hospitalizations in the United States
Publication: Am J Cardiol 95(5):668-71
Date: 2005
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Authors: Sung VW, Weitzen S, Sokol ER, Rardin CR, Myers DL
Title: Effect of patient age on increasing morbidity and mortality following urogynecologic surgery
Publication: Am J Obstet Gynecol 194(5):1411-17
Date: May 2006

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