Colorectal cancer screening in the elderly population: Disparities by dual medicare-medicaid enrollment status

Health Services Research

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2136-2154

  Koroukian, Siran M ^a   Xu, Fang ^a   Dor, Avi ^b,c   Cooper, Gregory S ^d  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Economics ^*

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrative claims data; Colorectal cancer screening; Dual eligibility; Managed care

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL SERVICE; MEDICARE; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; POPULATION RESEARCH; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33751059678     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2006.00585.x     Document Type: Article

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