Treatment Disparities for Disabled Medicare Beneficiaries With Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 595-601

  Iezzoni, Lisa I ^a,b   Ngo, Long H ^a   Li, Donglin ^a   Roetzheim, Richard G ^c   Drews, Reed E ^a   McCarthy, Ellen P ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disabled persons; Lung cancer; Medicare; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PNEUMONECTOMY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEER PROGRAM; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 40949115096     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2007.09.042     Document Type: Article

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