Implementing lung cancer screening under medicare: The last chance to get it right?

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 312, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1206-1207

  Sox, Harold C ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

^b Outcomes Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOW RISK PATIENT; LUNG CANCER; MEDICARE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMICS; INSURANCE; LUNG TUMOR; NOTE; RADIOGRAPHY;

DECISION MAKING; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MEDICARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84907486043     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2014.12921     Document Type: Editorial

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