Older Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders dying of cancer use hospice less frequently than older white patients

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-53

  Ngo Metzger, Quyen ^a,c   McCarthy, Ellen P ^a   Burns, Risa B ^a   Davis, Roger B ^a   Li, Frederick P ^b   Phillips, Russell S ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Center for Health Policy Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER STATISTICS; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPICE; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE; REGISTRATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMACH CANCER;

EID: 0038303352     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(03)00258-4     Document Type: Article

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