Racial differences in definitive breast cancer therapy in older women: Are they explained by the hospitals where patients undergo surgery?

Medical Care

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 765-773

  Keating, Nancy L ^a,b   Kouri, Elena ^b   He, Yulei ^b   Weeks, Jane C ^c   Winer, Eric P ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Quality; Racial disparities; Surgery

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; RACE DIFFERENCE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASTECTOMY; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SEER PROGRAM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67649776649     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e31819e1fe7     Document Type: Article

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