Improving Rural Cancer Patients' Outcomes: A Group-Randomized Trial

Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 26-35

  Elliott, Thomas E ^a,f   Elliott, Barbara A ^b   Regal, Ronald R ^c   Renier, Colleen M ^a   Haller, Irina V ^a   Crouse, Byron J ^d   Witrak, Martha T ^e   Jensen, Patricia B ^a  

^a Duluth Clinic   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e School of Health Science   (United States)

^f SMDC Health System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER PATIENT; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LUNG CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZATION; RURAL POPULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; GREAT LAKES REGION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RURAL HEALTH; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 0348047533     PISSN: 0890765X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2004.tb00004.x     Document Type: Article

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