Effects of Physician Supply on Melanoma Incidence and Mortality in Florida

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 656-660

  Van Durme, Daniel J ^a,b   Ullman, Robert ^a   Campbell, Robert J ^a   Roetzheim, Richard ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care personnel; Health policy; Melanoma; Physicians

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; DERMATOLOGY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MELANOMA; MORTALITY; UNITED STATES; GENERAL PRACTICE; INCIDENCE; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MANPOWER; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION DENSITY; RADIATION INJURY; REGISTER; SKIN TUMOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; TOPOGRAPHY;

DERMATOLOGY; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PHYSICIANS; POPULATION DENSITY; REGISTRIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 0141496449     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000053569.81565.19     Document Type: Article

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