Access to bone marrow transplantation for leukemia and lymphoma: The role of sociodemographic factors
Access to bone marrow transplantation for leukemia and lymphoma: The role of sociodemographic factors
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DOI:
10.1200/jco.1997.15.7.2644
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发表时间:
1997-07-01
影响因子:
45.3
通讯作者:
Schulman, KA
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作者:
Mitchell, JM;Meehan, KR;Schulman, KA
Purpose: Use of bone marrow transplantation (BMT), a complex, costly treatment for many forms of cancers, has increased significantly in recent years, The increasingly competitive health care marketplace raises concerns about patient access to costly medical procedures such as BMT, We attempted to evaluate patient access to BMT for the treatment of leukemias and lymphomas,Methods: We analyzed inpatient hospital discharge data from four stares (California, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York) for 2 years (1988 and 1991) to examine whether the use of BMT for patients with either leukemia or lymphoma varies by sociodemographic characteristics and insurance coverage, We developed a sorting algorithm to collapse the discharge data into patient level records. We used logistic regression to analyze the odds of receiving a BMT stratified by disease type (leukemia or lymphoma),Results: After controlling for other factors, black patient with leukemia are 51% to 53% as likely as whites, while black patients with lymphoma are 34% to 45% as likely as white patients to undergo a BMT (P