Health Care Integration and Quality among Men with Prostate Cancer

Journal of Urology

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 55-60

  Herrel, Lindsey A ^a   Kaufman, Samuel R ^a   Yan, Phyllis ^a   Miller, David C ^a   Schroeck, Florian R ^d   Skolarus, Ted A ^a,c   Shahinian, Vahakn B ^b   Hollenbeck, Brent K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

accountable care organizations; delivery of health care; health care; integrated; Medicare; prostatic neoplasms; quality indicators

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER THERAPY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LOW RISK PATIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION ONCOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL PATIENT; UROLOGIST; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; MORTALITY; ODDS RATIO; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR INVASION; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEER PROGRAM; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85003696203     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: 15273792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2016.07.040     Document Type: Article

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