Affordable care act changes to medicare led to increased diagnoses of early-stage colorectal cancer among seniors

Health Affairs

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 101-107

  Lissenden, Brett ^a   Yao, Nengliang Aaron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COST; EARLY CANCER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICARE; OCCULT BLOOD; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; AGED; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; MALE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT; SEER PROGRAM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85011842396     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.0607     Document Type: Article

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