Serious health events and discontinuation of routine cancer screening

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 627-635

  Howard, David H ^a   Huang, Ya Lin ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

decision making; early detection of cancer; health services for the aged; mammography; prostate specific antigen

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; DECISION MAKING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSURANCE; MALE; MEDICARE; PROSTATE TUMOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; MALE; MEDICARE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864244731     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X11434600     Document Type: Article

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