Structural/organizational characteristics of health services partly explain racial variation in timeliness of radiation therapy among elderly breast cancer patients

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 333-345

  Wheeler, Stephanie B ^a   Carpenter, William R ^a   Peppercorn, Jeffrey ^b   Schenck, Anna P ^c   Weinberger, Morris ^a,d   Biddle, Andrea K ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer care quality; Disparities; Distance to care; Health services organization; SEER Medicare; Timing

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICARE; NEGRO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860332638     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-012-1955-2     Document Type: Article

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