Treatment for older prostate cancer patients: Disparities in a southern state

Medical Care

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 915-922

  Pisu, Maria ^a   Oliver, Joann S ^b   Kim, Young Il ^a   Elder, Keith ^c   Martin, Michelle ^a   Richardson, Lisa C ^d  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

health care access; healthcare disparities; prostate cancer; Southeastern United States

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANDROGEN DEPRIVATION THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; COMORBIDITY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; ORCHIECTOMY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH DISPARITY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALABAMA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77957273788     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3181eb31a8     Document Type: Article

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