Health-related quality of life in elderly black and white patients with cancer: Results from medicare managed care population

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 302-307

  Ye, Jiali ^a   Shim, Ruth ^a   Garrett, Stephanie Lynn ^a   Daniels, Elvan ^a  

^a MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Health related quality of life; Race

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEGRO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; AFRICAN AMERICAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; COMORBIDITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866914559     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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