Association of a cancer diagnosis with vulnerability and frailty in older medicare beneficiaries

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 101, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 1206-1215

  Mohile, Supriya Gupta ^a   Xian, Ying ^b   Dale, William ^c   Fisher, Susan G ^b   Rodin, Miriam ^a,d   Morrow, Gary R ^b   Neugut, Alfred ^a,e   Hall, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF EVALUATION; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SYNDROME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69949140008     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djp239     Document Type: Article

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