Socioeconomic status and disparities in treatment patterns

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 480-481

  Chu, David I ^a   Freedland, Stephen J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; MALE; NOTE; PROSTATE TUMOR; STATISTICS;

HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77956520669     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2010.121     Document Type: Short Survey

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