Barriers to breast abnormality follow-up: Minority, low-income patients' and their providers' view

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 720-726

  Kaplan, Celia Patricia ^a   Eisenberg, Merrill ^c   Erickson, Pamela I ^b   Crane, Lori A ^d   Duffey, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Americans; Breast cancer; Hispanic; Mammography; Patient compliance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BREAST DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEAR; FEMALE; FINANCE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MINORITY GROUP; PAIN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RACE; TELEPHONE; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; BREAST; BREAST DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LOS ANGELES; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POVERTY; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 27844554337     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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