Associations of physician supplies with breast cancer stage at diagnosis and survival in Ontario, 1988 to 2006

Cancer

Volumn 115, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 3563-3570

  Gorey, Kevin M ^a   Luginaah, Isaac N ^b   Holowaty, Eric J ^c   Fung, Karen Y ^a   Hamm, Caroline ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c CANCER CARE ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d Centre Regional De Cancerologie De Windsor   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Canada; Family physicians; General practitioners; Healthcare service endowments; Obstetrician gynecologists; Ontario; Physician supplies; Primary care; Stage at diagnosis; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; ONTARIO; PHYSICIANS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY;

EID: 68149169049     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24401     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Macinko J, Starfield B, Shi L. Is primary care effective? Quantifying the health benefits of primary care physician supply in the United States. Int J Health Serv. 2007;37:111-126.
2. Coughlin SS, Leadbetter S, Richards T, Sabatino SA. Contextual analysis of breast and cervical cancer screening and factors associated with health care access among United States women, 2002. Soc Sci Med. 2008;66:260-275.
3. Davidson PL, Bastani R, Nakazono TT, Carreon DC. Role of community risk factors and resources on breast carcinoma stage at diagnosis. Cancer. 2005;103:922-930.
4. Ferrante JM, Gonzalez EC, Pal N, Roetzheim RG. Effects of physician supply on early detection of breast cancer. J Am Board Fam Pract. 2000;13:408-414.
5. Fleisher JM, Lou JQ, Farrell M. Relationship between physician supply and breast cancer survival: a geographic approach. J Community Health. 2008;33:179-182.
6. Gorey KM, Fung KY, Luginaah IN, et al. Cancer survival in Ontario, 1986-2003: evidence of equitable advances across most diverse urban and rural places. Can J Public Health. 2008;99:12-16.
7. Gorey KM, Kliewer E, Holowaty EJ, Laukkanen E, Ng EY. An international comparison of breast cancer survival: Winnipeg, Manitoba and Des Moines, Iowa, metropolitan areas. Ann Epidemiol. 2003;13:32-41.
8. Gorey KM, Holowaty EJ, Fehringer G, Laukkanen E, Richter NL, Meyer CM. An international comparison of cancer survival: Metropolitan Toronto, Ontario and Honolulu, Hawaii. Am J Public Health. 2000;90:1866-1872.
9. Gorey KM, Holowaty EJ, Fehringer G, et al. An international comparison of cancer survival: Toronto, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, metropolitan areas. Am J Public Health. 1997;87:1156-1163.
10. Gorey KM. Breast cancer survival in Canada and the United States: meta-analytic evidence of a Canadian advantage in low-income areas. Int J Epidemiol. In press.
11. Gorey KM, Luginaah IN, Holowaty EJ, Fung KY, Hamm C. Breast cancer survival in Ontario and California, 1998 to 2006: socioeconomic inequality remains much greater in the United States. Ann Epidemiol. 2009;19:121-124.
12. Shi L, Macinko J, Starfield B, Politzer R, Wulu J, Xu J. Primary care, social inequalities, and all-cause, heart disease, and cancer mortality in US counties, 1990. Am J Public Health. 2005;95:674-680.
13. Macinko J, Starfield B, Shi L. The contribution of primary care systems to health outcomes within organization for economic cooperation and development (OECD) countries, 1970-1998. Health Serv Res. 2003;38:831-865.
14. Menec VH, Sirski M, Attawar D. Does continuity of care matter in a universally insured population? Health Serv Res. 2005;40:389-400.
15. Fleiss JL, Levin B, Paik MC. Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions. 3rd ed. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2003.
16. Hall S, Schulze K, Groome P, Mackillop W, Holowaty E. Using cancer registry data for survival studies: the example of the Ontario Cancer Registry. J Clin Epidemiol. 2006;59:67-76.
17. Walter SD, Birnie SE, Marrett LD, et al. The geographic variation of cancer incidence in Ontario. Am J Public Health. 1994;84:367-376.
18. North American Association of Central Cancer Registries. Data quality assessments. Available at: http://ww.naaccr.org. Accessed on July 12, 2008.
19. Statistics Canada. Profiles of Census Divisions and Subdivisions, 2001 (Ontario). Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Statistics Canada; 2002.
20. Statistics Canada. Profiles of Census Divisions and Subdivisions, 1991 (Ontario). Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Statistics Canada; 1992.
21. Statistics Canada. Profiles of Census Tracts, 2001 (Ontario). Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Statistics Canada; 2002.
22. Statistics Canada. Profiles of Census Tracts, 1991 (Ontario). Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Statistics Canada; 1992.
23. Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Residence Coding Manual. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care; 2003.
24. Statistics Canada. Definitions of "Rural." Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Statistics Canada; 2002.
25. Health Canada. Definitions of "Rural" Summary. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Statistics Canada; 2002.
26. Young JL Jr, Roffers SD, Ries LAG, Fritz AG, Hurlbut AA, eds. SEER Summary Staging Manual-2000: Codes and Coding Instructions. NIH Pub. No. 01-4969. Bethesda, Md: National Cancer Institute; 2001.
27. National Cancer Institute. SEER Extent of Disease - 1988 Codes and Coding Instructions. 3rd ed. NIH Pub. No. 98-1999. Bethesda, Md: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health; 1998.
28. Gorey KM. Regarding "ssociations between socioeconomic status and cancer survival." Ann Epidemiol. 2006;16:789-791.
29. Krieger N, Chen JT, Waterman PD, Rehkopf DH, Subramanian SV. Race/ethnicity, gender, and monitoring socioeconomic gradients in health: a comparison of area-based socioeconomic measures - the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project. Am J Public Health. 2003;93:1655-1671.
30. Krieger N, Chen JT, Waterman PD, Soobader M, Subramanian SV, Carson R. Geocoding and monitoring of US socioeconomic inequalities in mortality and cancer incidence: does the choice of area-based measure and geographic level matter? The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project. Am J Epidemiol. 2002;156:471-482.
31. Wadden N, Doyle GP. Breast cancer screening in Canada: a review. Can Assoc Radiol J. 2005;56:271-175.
32. Canadian Institute for Health Information. Supply, Distribution and Migration of Canadian Physicians, 2006. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Canadian Institute for Health Information; 2007.
33. Hosmer DW, Lemeshow S. Applied Logistic Regression. 2nd ed. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2000.
34. Klockars AJ, Hancock GR. Power of recent multiple comparison procedures as applied to a complete set of planned orthogonal contrasts. Psych Bull. 1992;111:505-510.
35. Alter DA, Stukel TA, Newman A. The relationship between physician supply, cardiovascular health service use and cardiac disease burden in Ontario: supply-need mismatch. Can J Cardiol. 2008;24:187-193.
36. Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. "Shaping Ontario's Physician Workforce": Expert Panel on Health Professional Human Resources. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care; 2001.
37. Chan B. Supply of Physicians' Services in Ontario. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences; 1999.
38. Pong RW, Pitblado JR. Geographic Distribution of Physicians in Canada: Beyond How Many and Where. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Canadian Institute for Health Information; 2005.
39. Blackwell DL, Martinez ME, Gentleman JF. Women's compliance with public health guidelines for mammograms and Pap tests in Canada and the United States: an analysis of data from the Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health. Womens Health Issues. 2008;18:85-99.
40. Ramirez AJ, Westcombe AM, Burgess CC, Sutton S, Littlejohns P, Richards MA. Factors predicting delayed presentation of symptomatic breast cancer: a systematic review. Lancet. 1999;353:1127-1131.