Primary Care, Economic Barriers to Health Care, and Use of Colorectal Cancer Screening Tests Among Medicare Enrollees Over Time

PURPOSE Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening remains underutilized. The objective of this study was to examine the impact of primary care and economic barriers to health care on CRC testing relative to the 2001 Medicare expansion of screening coverage. METHODS Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey data w...

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Main Authors: Doubeni, Chyke A., Laiyemo, Adeyinka O., Young, Angela C., Klabunde, Carrie N., Reed, George, Field, Terry S., Fletcher, Robert H.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Academy of Family Physicians 2010
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2906524/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20644184
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1370/afm.1112
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