Barriers to timely screening colonoscopy: The role of health insurance

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 201-206

  Mohammad, Amir ^a,b   Khan, Yosef ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INSURANCE, MAJOR MEDICAL; MALE; MEDICAL ASSISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77951086722     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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