Racial and ethnic differences in use of mammography between medicare advantage and traditional medicare

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 105, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 1891-1896

  Ayanian, John Z ^a,b,c   Landon, Bruce E ^a,d   Zaslavsky, Alan M ^a   Newhouse, Joseph P ^a,c,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MINORITY GROUP; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PREFERRED PROVIDER ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE;

EID: 84891467821     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djt333     Document Type: Article

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