Do hospitals that serve a high percentage of medicaid patients perform well on evidence- based guidelines for colon cancer care?

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1180-1193

  Rhoads, Kim F ^a   Ngo, Justine V ^b   Ma, Yifei ^a   Huang, Lyen ^c   Welton, Mark L ^c   Adams Dudley, R ^d  

^a STANFORD CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Department of Surgery ^*  (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Guideline compliance; Guideline compliance colon cancer; Medicaid hospitals; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLON TUMOR; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAID; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; MEDICAID; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; ODDS RATIO; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883145203     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: 15486869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2013.0122     Document Type: Article

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