Variation in quality of care among older men with localized prostate cancer

Cancer

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2520-2529

  Jayadevappa, Ravishankar ^a,b   Chhatre, Sumedha ^b   Johnson, Jerry C ^a   Malkowicz, S Bruce ^a  

^a School of Veterinary Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

External beam radiation therapy; Health resource utilization; Mortality; Prostate cancer; Quality of care; Race and ethnicity; Radical prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

HORMONE;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE;

EXTERNAL BEAM RADIATION THERAPY; HEALTH RESOURCE UTILIZATION; MORTALITY; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF CARE; RACE AND ETHNICITY; RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SEER PROGRAM; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79958698429     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25812     Document Type: Article

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