National sociodemographic disparities in the treatment of high-risk prostate cancer: Do academic cancer centers perform better than community cancer centers?
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- 作者：Brandon A. Mahal ; Yu-Wei Chen ; Vinayak Muralidhar ; Amandeep R. Mahal ; Toni K. Choueiri ; Karen E. Hoffman ; Jim C. Hu ; Christopher J. Sweeney ; James B. Yu ; Felix Y. Feng ; Simon P. Kim ; Clair J. Beard ; Neil E. Martin ; Quoc-Dien Trinh and Paul L. Nguyen
- 刊名：Cancer
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：November 1, 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：122
- 期：21
- 页码：3371-3377
- 全文大小：292K
- ISSN：1097-0142
文摘
Most major cancer organizations seek to reduce sociodemographic disparities in high-risk cancers partly by increasing access to theoretically high-quality, academic-oriented cancer care. The objective of this study was to determine whether academic centers have less sociodemographic treatment disparities than community centers using high-risk prostate cancer as a test case.