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Racial Differences in Use of Cancer Prevention Services Among Older Americans

V. Hegarty, Bruce M. Burchett, Deborah T. Gold, Harvey Jay Cohen

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2000 · 74 citations · 23 references

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Abstract

Racial differences exist in the use of cancer prevention services among older Americans. However, these differences are related to educational, income, and insurance differences between blacks and whites.

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The Effect of Race and Sex on Physicians' Recommendations for Cardiac Catheterization

Kevin A. Schulman, Jesse A. Berlin, William G. Harless et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1999 · 1.9K citations · Full text

The Increasing Disparity in Mortality between Socioeconomic Groups in the United States, 1960 and 1986

Gregory Pappas, Susan Queen, Wilbur C. Hadden et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1993 · 1.5K citations

Effects of Race and Income on Mortality and Use of Services among Medicare Beneficiaries

Marian E. Gornick, Paul W. Eggers, Thomas W. Reilly et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1996 · 815 citations · Full text

Racial Variation in the Use of Coronary-Revascularization Procedures — Are the Differences Real? Do They Matter?

Eric D. Peterson, Linda K. Shaw, Elizabeth R. DeLong et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1997 · 552 citations · Full text

Screening the Elderly

Gerda G. Fillenbaum · Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 1985 · 514 citations