The National Program Of Cancer Registries: Explaining state variations in Average cost per case reported

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Weir, Hannah K ^a   Berg, Gregory D ^b   Mansley, Edward C ^c   Belloni, Kimberly A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^b McKesson   (United States)

^c MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; COST; ECONOMICS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEOPLASM; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REGISTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; NEOPLASMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEER PROGRAM; STATE GOVERNMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33747394837     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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