Does healthcare infrastructure have an impact on delay in diagnosis and survival?

Carl Blankart

Health Policy, 2012, vol. 105, issue 2, 128-137

Abstract: The objectives of this study were to evaluate whether healthcare infrastructure impacts delay in diagnosis, and to determine whether healthcare infrastructure and delay in diagnosis impacts survival in gastric cancer.

Keywords: Stomach cancer; Gastric cancer; Hospital volumes; Cox proportional hazard model; Rare disease; Rural–urban differences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2012.01.006

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