Complexity of care needs and unstaged cancer in elders: A population-based study

Cancer Detection and Prevention

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 199-206

  Koroukian, Siran M ^a,d   Xu, Fang ^a   Beaird, Heather ^a   Diaz, Mireya ^a   Murray, Patrick ^a,b   Rose, Julia H ^b,c,d  

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

^b METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Colorectal cancer; Comorbidity; Complexity of care; Education; Home health care; Long term care; Prostate cancer; Race, socioeconomic status; Unstaged cancer

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE NEED; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MEDICAID; NEOPLASM STAGING; NURSING HOMES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 34547844151     PISSN: 0361090X     EISSN: 15251500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cdp.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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