aDepartment of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
bDepartment of Surgery, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA
cDivision of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
dDepartment of Surgery, Olive View-UCLA, Sylmar, CA
eDepartment of Surgery and Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA
Correspondence address: Masha Livhits, MD, Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 10833 LeConte Ave, 72-215 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095
E-mail: [email protected]
Submitted September 10, 2010; revised February 8, 2011; accepted February 9, 2011.
Disclosure Information: Nothing to disclose.
The VA Department of Surgery provided support for Drs Livhits and Gibbons. Dr Gibbons’ time was supported in part by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Physician Faculty Scholars program. Dr Zingmond was supported by an NIA Mentored Clinical Scientist Award (1K08AG023024).
