Racial disparities in the use of hospice services according to geographic residence and socioeconomic status in an elderly cohort with nonsmall cell lung cancer

Cancer

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1506-1515

  Hardy, Dale ^a   Chan, Wenyaw ^a   Liu, Chih Chin ^a   Cormier, Janice N ^b   Xia, Rui ^a   Bruera, Eduardo ^b   Du, Xianglin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

geographic residence; hospice services; nonsmall cell lung cancer; race ethnicity; socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ELDERLY CARE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RURAL AREA; SEX; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN AREA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 79952843783     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25669     Document Type: Article

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