The impact of continuous medicaid enrollment on diagnosis, treatment, and survival in six surgical cancers

Health Services Research

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1787-1811

  Dawes, Aaron J ^a,b   Louie, Rachel ^c   Nguyen, David K ^c   Maggard Gibbons, Melinda ^b,c   Parikh, Punam ^c   Ettner, Susan L ^c,d   Ko, Clifford Y ^b,c   Zingmond, David S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

access to care; cancer; Medicaid; surgery; survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; COLON CANCER; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOMACH CANCER; COHORT ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84912030797     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12237     Document Type: Article

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