Lower use of hospice by cancer patients who live in minority versus white areas

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 396-399

  Haas, Jennifer S ^a   Earle, Craig C ^b   Orav, John E ^a   Brawarsky, Phyllis ^a   Neville, Bridget A ^b   Acevedo Garcia, Dolores ^c   Williams, David R ^d  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Hospice; Race; Segregation

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CAUCASIAN; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MINORITY GROUP; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HOSPICE; NEOPLASM; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPICES; HUMANS; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 34250320537     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-006-0034-y     Document Type: Article

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