Does healthcare infrastructure have an impact on delay in diagnosis and survival?

Health Policy

Volumn 105, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 128-137

  Blankart, Carl Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cox proportional hazard model; Gastric cancer; Hospital volumes; Rare disease; Rural urban differences; Stomach cancer

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; STOMACH CANCER; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SEX FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 84859741859     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: 18726054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2012.01.006     Document Type: Article

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