Disparities in hospice utilization among American Indian medicare beneficiaries dying of cancer

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 393-398

  Guadagnolo, B Ashleigh ^a   Huo, Jinhai ^a   Buchholz, Thomas A ^a   Petereit, Daniel G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b John T Vucurevich Regional Cancer Care Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

American Indian; Disparities; End of Life; Hospice Utilization; Medicare Beneficiaries

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA BASE; DYING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; NEOPLASM; PANCREAS CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; TERMINAL DISEASE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VERY ELDERLY; CANCER REGISTRY; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HOSPICE; HOSPICE CARE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPICES; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MEDICARE; NEOPLASMS; SEER PROGRAM; TERMINALLY ILL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84908614041     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: 19450826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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