Determination of county-level prostate carcinoma incidence and detection rates with Medicare claims data

Cancer

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 102-109

  Cooper, Gregory S ^a,b,c   Yuan, Zhong ^b   Jethva, Reena N ^a   Rimm, Alfred 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

Elderly patients; Medicare; Prostate specific antigen; Prostatic neoplasms; Small area analysis

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RACE DIFFERENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MALE; MEDICARE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035395245     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(20010701)92:1<102::AID-CNCR1297>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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