Changes in Receipt of Cancer Screening in Medicare Beneficiaries Following the Affordable Care Act

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Cooper, Gregory S ^a,b   Kou, Tzuyung D ^a   Schluchter, Mark D ^b   Dor, Avi ^c   Koroukian, Siran M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISABILITY; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM SAMPLE; VERY ELDERLY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; ODDS RATIO; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROCEDURES; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICARE; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; SAMPLING STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84968904039     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djv374     Document Type: Article

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