Insurance status and head and neck radiotherapy interruption disparities in the Mid-Southern United States
| Autor: | Charles Yarn, Sharon A. Spencer, Michelle Y. Martin, Maria Pisu, D.V. Wakefield, David L. Schwartz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Multivariate analysis
Psychological intervention Medicare Insurance Coverage 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Health insurance medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Aged Retrospective Studies Insurance Health business.industry Medicaid Head and neck cancer Retrospective cohort study medicine.disease United States Otorhinolaryngology 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Insurance status Household income business Demography |
| Zdroj: | HeadneckREFERENCES. 42(8) |
| ISSN: | 1097-0347 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND Relationships between health insurance coverage and radiotherapy (RT) interruption rates in patients with head and neck (H&N) cancer remain unclear. METHODS We performed a retrospective cohort study at our academic center. Days of RT interruption for individual patients were tabulated, analyzed for explanatory variables, and geographically mapped. RESULTS 894 of 7526 (11.9%) scheduled treatment days were interrupted, impacting 149 of 216 (69%) patients. Medicaid/uninsured patients experienced a 7.3 day mean interruption (SD = 9.9) vs 3.4 days (SD = 5.2) for Medicare/private patients (P |
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