The welcome to medicare visit: A missed opportunity for cancer screening among women?

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 19-25

  Salloum, Ramzi G ^a   Jensen, Gail A ^b   Biddle, Andrea K ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICARE; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGED; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 84872346791     PISSN: 15409996     EISSN: 1931843X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2012.3777     Document Type: Article

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