Geographic variation among medicare beneficiaries in the use of colorectal carcinoma screening procedures

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1544-1550

  Cooper, Gregory S ^a   Koroukian, Siran M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL RADIOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICARE; OCCULT BLOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

AGED; BARIUM SULFATE; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENEMA; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MEDICARE; OCCULT BLOOD; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4444282919     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2004.30902.x     Document Type: Article

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