Attributable costs of differentiated thyroid cancer in the elderly Medicare population

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 154, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1363-1370

  Boltz, Melissa M ^a,b   Hollenbeak, Christopher S ^a,b   Schaefer, Eric ^a   Goldenberg, David ^a,b   Saunders, Brian D ^b  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; IODINE 131;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CANCER; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; SEER PROGRAM; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84887997926     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2013.06.042     Document Type: Article

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