Racial and ethnic differences in beliefs about lung cancer care

Chest

Volumn 142, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1251-1258

  Jonnalagadda, Sirisha ^a   Lin, Jenny J ^b   Nelson, Judith E ^b,c   Powell, Charles A ^b   Salazar Schicchi, John ^d   Berman, Andrew R ^e   Keller, Steven M ^f   Smith, Cardinale B ^b,c   Lurslurchachai, Linda ^b   Halm, Ethan A ^g   Leventhal, Howard ^h   Wisnivesky, Juan P ^b  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^f ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER THERAPY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HISPANIC; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; LUNG CANCER; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; NEGRO; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE;

EID: 84868619151     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.12-0330     Document Type: Article

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