Utilization of services among elderly cancer patients-relationship to age, symptoms, physical functioning, comorbidity, and survival status

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 2 SUPPL. 2, 2005, Pages

  Kurtz, Margot E ^a   Kurtz, J C ^b   Given, Charles W ^c   Given, Barbara A ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLASSIFICATION; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; NEOPLASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SEX RATIO; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 61849174823     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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