Elderly breast and colorectal cancer patients' clinical course: Patient and contextual influences

Medical Care

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 809-817

  Lamont, Elizabeth B ^a   Zaslavsky, Alan M ^a   Subramanian, Subu V ^b   Meilleur, Ashley E ^a   He, Yulei ^a   Landrum, Mary B ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; elderly; neighborhoods and health; small area variation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; COLORECTAL CANCER; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEIGHBORHOOD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN POPULATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEER PROGRAM; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84906061948     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000180     Document Type: Article

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