Trends in Colorectal Cancer Testing Among Medicare Subpopulations

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 194-202

  Fenton, Joshua J ^a,b   Cai, Yong ^d   Green, Pamela ^e   Beckett, Laurel A ^b,c   Franks, Peter ^a   Baldwin, Laura Mae ^e  

^a Department of Family and Community Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; OCCULT BLOOD; RACE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICARE; OCCULT BLOOD; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PILOT PROJECTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; SEER PROGRAM; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 48649093241     PISSN: 07493797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2008.05.029     Document Type: Article

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