Black White disparities in receiving a physician recommendation for colorectal cancer screening and reasons for not undergoing screening

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1115-1124

  Coleman Wallace, Debbie A ^a   Baltrus, Peter T ^a   Wallace, Tracey C ^b   Blumenthal, Daniel S ^a   Rust, George S ^a  

^a MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Northside Urgent Care and Family Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer screening; Health disparity; Insurance; Predictors; Race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883172306     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: 15486869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2013.0132     Document Type: Article

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