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- Title
High-cost imaging in elderly patients with stage IV cancer.
- Authors
Hu, Yue-Yung; Kwok, Alvin C; Jiang, Wei; Taback, Nathan; Loggers, Elizabeth T; Ting, Gladys V; Lipsitz, Stuart R; Weeks, Jane C; Greenberg, Caprice C
- Abstract
Medicare expenditures for high-cost diagnostic imaging have risen faster than those for total cancer care and have been targeted for potential cost reduction. We sought to determine recent and long-term patterns in high-cost diagnostic imaging use among elderly (aged ≥65 years) patients with stage IV cancer.
- Publication
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2012, Vol 104, Issue 15, p1164
- ISSN
1460-2105
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/jnci/djs286