Diagnosis of advanced cancer among elderly medicare and medicaid patients

Medical Care

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 410-419

  Bradley, Cathy J ^a,e   Given, Charles W ^a   Dahman, Bassam ^b   Luo, Zhehui ^c   Virnig, Beth A ^d  

^a Massey Cancer Center ^*

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer detection; Cancer stage; Medicaid; Medicare

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; NEOPLASM; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MICHIGAN; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247345405     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlr.0000256970.19359.2a     Document Type: Article

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