Association between serious psychological distress and health care use and expenditures by cancer history

Cancer

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 614-622

  Han, Xuesong ^a   Lin, Chun Chieh ^a   Li, Chunyu ^b   De Moor, Janet S ^c   Rodriguez, Juan L ^b   Kent, Erin E ^c   Forsythe, Laura P ^d  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Outcomes Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care use; Medical expenditures; Psychological distress; Psychosocial care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVOR; CANCER THERAPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; KESSLER PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; COMORBIDITY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL STRESS; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVOR; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84922513572     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.29102     Document Type: Article

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