The role of patient factors, cancer characteristics, and treatment patterns in the cost of care for medicare beneficiaries with breast cancer

Health Services Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 167-186

  Xu, Xiao ^a   Herrin, Jeph ^a,b   Soulos, Pamela R ^a   Saraf, Avantika ^c   Roberts, Kenneth B ^a   Killelea, Brigid K ^a   Wang, Shi Yi ^d   Long, Jessica B ^a   Wang, Rong ^d   Ma, Xiaomei ^d   Gross, Cary P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Health Research and Educational Trust   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; cost; hospital referral region; radiation; variation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; VERY ELDERLY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANCER REGISTRY; ECONOMICS; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MEDICARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEER PROGRAM; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84956803267     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12328     Document Type: Article

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