The population level prevalence and correlates of appropriate and inappropriate imaging to stage incident prostate cancer in the medicare population

Journal of Urology

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 97-102

  Makarov, Danil V ^a,b,d   Desai, Rani A ^a,b   Yu, James B ^a   Sharma, Richa ^a   Abraham, Nitya ^d   Albertsen, Peter C ^c   Penson, David F ^e   Gross, Cary P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

diagnostic imaging; Medicare; prostate; prostatic neoplasms; SEER program

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GLEASON SCORE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMAGING; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREVALENCE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 83555164656     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: 15273792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2011.09.042     Document Type: Article

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