Comorbidity-Adjusted life expectancy: A new tool to inform recommendations for optimal screening strategies

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 159, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 667-676

  Cho Dr , Hyunsoon ^a   Klabunde Dr , Carrie N ^b   Yabroff Dr , K Robin ^b   Wang Dr , Zhuoqiao ^c   Meekins Dr , Angela ^c   Lansdorp Vogelaar Dr , Iris ^d   Mariotto Dr , Angela B ^a  

^a Applied Research Program   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES INC   (United States)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GEOGRAPHY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICARE; PARALYSIS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCREENING; SURVIVAL RATE; ULCER; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84888244163     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-159-10-201311190-00005     Document Type: Article

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