Survival of older patients with cancer in the veterans health administration versus fee-for-service medicare

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1072-1079

  Landrum, Mary Beth ^a   Keating, Nancy L ^a,b   Lamont, Elizabeth B ^a,c   Bozeman, Samuel R ^e   Krasnow, Steven H ^f   Shulman, Lawrence ^d   Brown, Jennifer R ^d   Earle, Craig C ^g   Rabin, Michael ^d   McNeil, Barbara J ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^f VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEE FOR SERVICE MEDICARE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL FEE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; COMORBIDITY; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA, LARGE B-CELL, DIFFUSE; MALE; MEDICARE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SEER PROGRAM; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS;

EID: 84863907934     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2011.35.6758     Document Type: Article

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