Patterns of care among adolescents with malignancy in Ohio

Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-22

  Yeager, Nicholas D ^a,b   Hoshaw Woodard, Stacy ^a   Ruymann, Frederick B ^a   Termuhlen, Amanda ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to care; Access to clinical trials; Adolescent malignancy; Patterns of care among cancer patients

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SARCOMA; UNITED STATES; CLINICAL TRIAL; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASM; STATISTICS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; CLINICAL TRIALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALS; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASMS; OHIO;

EID: 33644842868     PISSN: 10774114     EISSN: 15363678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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