Racial variation in willingness to trade financial resources for life-prolonging cancer treatment

Cancer

Volumn 117, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 3476-3484

  Martin, Michelle Y ^a   Pisu, Maria ^a   Oster, Robert A ^a   Urmie, Julie M ^b   Schrag, Deborah ^c   Huskamp, Haiden A ^c   Lee, Jeannette ^d   Kiefe, Catarina I ^e   Fouad, Mona N ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; financial resources; preferences; race; tradeoffs; treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CAUCASIAN; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ETHNICITY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; POPULATION GROUPS;

EID: 79960697685     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25839     Document Type: Article

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