Prostate cancer treatment and ten-year survival among group/staff HMO and fee-for-service medicare patients

Health Services Research

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 525-546

  Potosky, Arnold L ^a   Merrill, Ray M ^a   Riley, Gerald F ^a   Taplin, Stephen H ^a   Barlow, William ^a   Fireman, Bruce H ^a   Lubitz, James D ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Healthcare insurance plans; Managed care; Outcomes research; Prostate cancer survival; Prostate cancer treatments

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICARE; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; CALIFORNIA; COHORT STUDIES; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON;

EID: 0032977088     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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