Out-of-Pocket costs, financial distress, and underinsurance in cancer care

JAMA Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 1582-1584

  Chino, Fumiko ^a   Peppercorn, Jeffrey M ^b   Rushing, Christel ^a   Kamal, Arif H ^c   Altomare, Ivy ^c   Samsa, Greg ^a   Zafar, S Yousuf ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE BURDEN; FEMALE; FINANCIAL DEFICIT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; PATIENT CARE; TREATMENT DURATION; AGED; COST; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; COST OF ILLNESS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 85034968806     PISSN: 23742437     EISSN: 23742445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2017.2148     Document Type: Letter

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