Patient ethnicity: A key predictor of cancer care satisfaction

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 351-358

  Thomas, Bejoy C ^a   Groff, Shannon L ^a   Tsang, Kathy ^a   Carlson, Linda E ^a  

^a TOM BAKER CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Malignant neoplasm; Patient satisfaction

Indexed keywords

CANCER; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SCREENING; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MARRIAGE; METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

AGED; ALBERTA; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WARE COUNTY;

EID: 68849124274     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557850802638203     Document Type: Article

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