Geographic and sociodemographic disparities in PET use by medicare beneficiaries with cancer

Journal of the American College of Radiology

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 635-642

  Onega, Tracy ^a,b,c   Tosteson, Tor D ^a,b,c   Wang, Qianfei ^b   Hillner, Bruce E ^d   Song, Yunjie ^b   Siegel, Barry A ^e   Tosteson, Anna N A ^a,b,c  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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

^c DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; imaging; Medicare; PET; race; variation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CAUCASIAN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; NEGRO; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REIMBURSEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL STATUS;

EID: 84926231341     PISSN: 15461440     EISSN: 1558349X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2012.05.005     Document Type: Article

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