Using residential segregation to predict colorectal cancer stage at diagnosis: two different approaches

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 10-19

  Mobley, Lee R ^a   Scott, Lia ^a   Rutherford, Yamisha ^a   Kuo, Tzy Mey ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer control; Geographic disparities; Health disparities; Multilevel analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER STATISTICS; CAUCASIAN; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SEGREGATION; UNITED STATES; ASIAN AMERICAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; FACTUAL DATABASE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TUMOR INVASION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGISTRIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL SEGREGATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85008165492     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: 18732585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2016.11.008     Document Type: Article

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