Use of medicare claims data to measure county-level variations in the incidence of colorectal carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 673-678

  Cooper, Gregory S ^a,b,c   Yuan, Zhong ^a   Stange, Kurt C ^a,b   Rimm, Alfred A ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal neoplasms; Elderly patients; Medicare; Small area analysis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CANCER; COST CONTROL; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INSURANCE CLAIM REPORTING; MALE; MEDICARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEER PROGRAM; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031841122     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980815)83:4<673::AID-CNCR7>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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