@article{7f43eb6df50542e6a5e265e467cc3c3e,
title = "Racial disparities in clinical presentation, surgical treatment and in-hospital outcomes of women with breast cancer: Analysis of nationwide inpatient sample database",
keywords = "Breast cancer, In-hospital outcomes, Racial disparity, Surgical treatment",
author = "Ahmed Dehal and Ali Abbas and Samir Johna",
note = "Funding Information: This is a retrospective analysis of hospital discharge data from the Health Care Utilization Project-Nationwide Inpatient Sample (HCUP-NIS) database between 2005 and 2009. NIS database is a component of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. This database represents the largest inpatient database in the United States. The NIS represent 20 % stratified sampling of US hospitals including public hospitals, children{\textquoteright}s hospitals, and academic medical centers. The database contain data from 1,050 hospitals with more than 8 million discharges annually from a variable number of states, ranging from eight states in 1988 to 44 states in 2009. The sampling frame for the 2009 NIS is a sample of hospitals that comprises approximately 95 % of all hospital discharges in the United States. Detailed information on the NIS design can be found at http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/nisoverview.jsp [17]. The NIS database has been used previously in a number of studies addressing various questions across the spectrum of medical specialties [18] including peer review papers on breast cancer [19–23].",
year = "2013",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1007/s10549-013-2567-1",
language = "English",
volume = "139",
pages = "561--569",
journal = "Breast Cancer Research and Treatment",
issn = "0167-6806",
number = "2",
}