Health insurance coverage and racial disparities in breast reconstruction after mastectomy

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Shippee, Tetyana P ^a   Kozhimannil, Katy B ^a   Rowan, Kathleen ^a   Virnig, Beth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER SURGERY; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899676149     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: 18784321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2014.03.001     Document Type: Article

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