Screening mammography was used more, and more frequently, by longer than shorter term Medicaid enrollees

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 824-831

  Koroukian, Siran M ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cancer diagnosis; Length of entrollment (LOE); Medicaid; Screening mammography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OHIO; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 5644267818     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2004.01.004     Document Type: Article

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