Primary care utilization and colorectal cancer outcomes among medicare beneficiaries

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 1747-1757

  Ferrante, Jeanne M ^a,b   McCarthy, Ellen P ^c   Gonzalez, Eduardo C ^d   Lee, Ji Hyun ^e   Chen, Ren ^d   Love Jackson, Kymia ^d   Roetzheim, Richard G ^d,e  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^e H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SCREENING; CARCINOID; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY CANCER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MEDICARE BENEFICIARY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; OFFICE VISITS; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEER PROGRAM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80054913365     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.470     Document Type: Article

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