Area-level variations in cancer care and outcomes

Medical Care

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 366-373

  Keating, Nancy L ^a,b   Landrum, Mary Beth ^b   Lamont, Elizabeth B ^b,c   Bozeman, Samuel R ^d   McNeil, Barbara J ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer care; Medicare spending; variation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER THERAPY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; MEDICARE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REGIONALIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VETERANS HEALTH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SEER PROGRAM; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84861634996     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e31824d74c0     Document Type: Article

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