Linking medicare, medicaid, and cancer registry data to study the burden of cancers in West Virginia

Medicare and Medicaid Research Review

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Nadpara, Pramit A ^a   Madhavan, Suresh S ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Appalachian; Cancer; Data linkage; Medicaid; Medicare

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH INSURANCE ELIGIBILITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEDICAID; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICARE; UNITED STATES; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; REGISTER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; WEST VIRGINIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPALACHIAN REGION; COST OF ILLNESS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; UNITED STATES; WEST VIRGINIA;

EID: 84874068014     PISSN: 21590354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5600/mmrr.002.04.a01     Document Type: Article

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