Effects of health insurance and race on colorectal cancer treatments and outcomes

A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation

1987 • 44,619 citations

Applied logistic regression

1990 • 37,000 citations

Adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative databases

1992 • 10,174 citations

Validation of a combined comorbidity index

1994 • 6,000 citations

Organizing Care for Patients with Chronic Illness

1996 • 2,767 citations

Cancer statistics, 1998

1998 • 2,407 citations

Improved Survival with Preoperative Radiotherapy in Resectable Rectal Cancer

1997 • 2,399 citations

Levamisole and Fluorouracil for Adjuvant Therapy of Resected Colon Carcinoma

1990 • 2,226 citations

Effective Surgical Adjuvant Therapy for High-Risk Rectal Carcinoma

1991 • 1,888 citations

Overcoming the absence of socioeconomic data in medical records: validation and application of a census-based methodology.

1992 • 1,653 citations

Bringing context back into epidemiology: variables and fallacies in multilevel analysis.

1998 • 1,313 citations

Improving Adjuvant Therapy for Rectal Cancer by Combining Protracted-Infusion Fluorouracil with Radiation Therapy after Curative Surgery

1994 • 1,154 citations

Best Subsets Logistic Regression

1989 • 1,122 citations

Surgical adjuvant therapy of large-bowel carcinoma: an evaluation of levamisole and the combination of levamisole and fluorouracil. The North Central Cancer Treatment Group and the Mayo Clinic.

1989 • 694 citations

The benefit of leucovorin-modulated fluorouracil as postoperative adjuvant therapy for primary colon cancer: results from National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project protocol C-03.

1993 • 683 citations

The Relation between Health Insurance Coverage and Clinical Outcomes among Women with Breast Cancer

1993 • 676 citations

Effects of Health Insurance and Race on Early Detection of Cancer

1999 • 483 citations

Cancer statistics by race and ethnicity

1998 • 299 citations

The Medicare-HMO Revolving Door — The Healthy Go in and the Sick Go Out

1997 • 234 citations

How Accurate are Hospital Discharge Data for Evaluating Effectiveness of Care?

1993 • 188 citations

Stage at Diagnosis and Treatment Patterns Among Older Women With Breast Cancer

1999 • 184 citations

Surgery for colorectal cancer: Race-related differences in rates and survival among Medicare beneficiaries.

1996 • 170 citations

Race, treatment, and survival among colorectal carcinoma patients in an equal-access medical system

1998 • 168 citations

Social Class: The Missing Link in U.S. Health Data

1994 • 168 citations

Stage of cancer at diagnosis for Medicare HMO and fee-for-service enrollees.

1994 • 142 citations

Five year results of a randomized trial of adjuvant 5-fluorouracil and levamisole in colorectal cancer

1987 • 138 citations

Comorbidity and breast cancer survival: A comparison between black and white women

1996 • 134 citations

Management and survival of patients with adenocarcinoma of the colon and rectum: a national survey of the Commission on Cancer.

1995 • 126 citations

Births and deaths: United States, 1996.

1997 • 123 citations

A collaborative study of differences in the survival rates of black patients and white patients with cancer

1992 • 113 citations

Hospital Variables Associated With Quality of Care for Breast Cancer Patients

1991 • 112 citations

Ability of Medicare Claims Data and Cancer Registries to Identify Cancer Cases and Treatment

1997 • 108 citations

Postoperative radiation therapy for high-risk colon carcinoma.

1993 • 103 citations

Aggressiveness of colon carcinoma in blacks and whites. National Cancer Institute Black/White Cancer Survival Study Group.

1997 • 101 citations

Selection bias in HMOs and PPOs: a review of the evidence.

1995 • 100 citations

The Effect of Managed Care on Quality

1998 • 90 citations

Breast Cancer Survival and Treatment in Health Maintenance Organization and Fee-for-Service Settings

1997 • 90 citations

Use of community versus individual socioeconomic data in predicting variation in hospital use.

1998 • 83 citations

Racial Comparison of Outcomes of Male Department of Veterans Affairs Patients With Lung and Colon Cancer

1993 • 75 citations

The Medically Uninsured — Will They Always Be with Us?

1996 • 70 citations

Trends and Outcomes of Outpatient Mastectomy in Elderly Women

1998 • 69 citations

Conditional survival estimates in 34,963 patients with invasive carcinoma of the colon

1998 • 69 citations

Management of colorectal cancer in medicare health maintenance organizations

1990 • 55 citations

Care of Patients With Colorectal Cancer

1984 • 49 citations

Survival and Treatment for Colorectal Cancer Medicare Patients in Two Group/Staff Health Maintenance Organizations and the Fee-for-Service Setting

1999 • 44 citations

Analysis of a claims database for the identification of patients with carcinoma of the breast

1994 • 41 citations

Disenrollment of Medicare Cancer Patients from Health Maintenance Organizations

1996 • 38 citations

The national cancer data base report on recent hospital cancer program progress toward complete American joint committee on cancer/TNM staging

1997 • 35 citations

Perioperative Management of Colon Cancer Under Medicare Risk Programs

1997 • 35 citations

Insurance coverage of patients with breast cancer in the 1991 Commission on Cancer patient care evaluation study

1994 • 34 citations

Quality of care for colorectal cancer in a fee-for-service and health maintenance organization practice

1992 • 32 citations

The validity of hospital administrative data in monitoring variations in breast cancer surgery.

1996 • 30 citations

Adjuvant Postoperative Radiation Therapy for Colonic Carcinoma

1987 • 26 citations

The Effect of Insurance Coverage on Breast Cancer Patients' Treatment and Hospital Choices

1997 • 22 citations

Population‐based study of the treatment and prognosis of carcinoma of the rectum

1997 • 19 citations

Population-based study of the treatment and prognosis of carcinoma of the rectum

1997 • 15 citations

Cancer of the anus (review).

1998 • 7 citations

Mixed life expectancy changes.

1996 • 3 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations