Factors affecting enrollment in literacy studies for English- and Spanish-speaking cancer patients

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 4119-4131

  Du, Hongyan ^a   Valenzuela, Veronica ^a   Diaz, Patricia ^a   Cella, David ^a,b   Hahn, Elizabeth A ^a,b  

^a Research and Education   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lliteracy; Multiple imputations; Participation bias; Study recruitment; Underserved populations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONRESPONSE BIAS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLID TUMOR;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPUTER LITERACY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SELECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELECTION BIAS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 50849139534     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3259     Document Type: Article

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