Disparities in quality of cancer care: The role of health insurance and population demographics

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 96, Issue 50, 2017, Pages

  Parikh Patel, Arti ^a   Morris, Cyllene R ^a   Kizer, Kenneth W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Disparities; Health insurance; Public health; Quality improvement; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CALIFORNIA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLON CANCER; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DUAL ELIGIBILITY (HEALTH INSURANCE); ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MEDICARE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OVARY CANCER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; RACE; SEX; SOCIAL STATUS; STOMACH CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ECONOMICS; INSURANCE; NEOPLASM; REGISTER;

CALIFORNIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES;

EID: 85039781202     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000009125     Document Type: Article

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