Disparities in colon cancer screening in the medicare population

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 258-264

  Ananthakrishnan, Ashwin N ^a   Schellhase, Kenneth G ^a   Sparapani, Rodney A ^a   Laud, Purushottam W ^a   Neuner, Joan M ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CAUCASIAN; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICARE; NEW YORK; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33846984978     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.167.3.258     Document Type: Article

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