ArticleHealthcare policy = Politiques de sante2012
Inequity in access to guideline-recommended colorectal cancer treatment in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Article in Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Integrating equity indicators for hospital reporting metrics.Research in health services & regions · 2024Article
- Health and healthcare equity within the Canadian cancer care sector: a rapid scoping review.International journal for equity in health · 2023Article
- Pursuing Connectivity in Cardio-Oncology Care-The Future of Telemedicine and Artificial Intelligence in Providing Equity and Access to Rural Communities.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Review
- Access to cancer care in northwestern Ontario-a population-based study using administrative data.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2020Article
- Access to innovative drugs for metastatic lung cancer treatment in a French nationwide cohort: the TERRITOIRE study.BMC cancer · 2018Article
- Income-related inequalities in visual impairment and eye screening services in patients with type 2 diabetes.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2016Article
- Characteristics affecting survival after locally advanced colorectal cancer in Quebec.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2015Article
- Research in cancer care disparities in countries with universal healthcare: mapping the field and its conceptual contours.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2014Review
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6 authors.
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Abstract
Cancer continues to be one of the heaviest burdens of disease in Canada, and assessing potential inequities in access to cancer care may serve as a barometer of the health of Canadian health systems. This study tackled three limitations of the current literature by clearly differentiating between inequality and inequity, by assessing inequity in receipt of care and wait times for care, and by taking advantage of inequity indices to enhance comparability of inequities between studies and populations. We measured income-, age-, sex- and distance-related inequities among colorectal cancer (CRC) patients in Nova Scotia by accounting for clinical guidelines and patient need. Results reveal statistically significant inequity in access to chemotherapy and radiotherapy for CRC by age, sex and distance, but not income. This study demonstrates the importance of carefully examining inequity in access to cancer care and highlights one method to report and compare inequities with conceptual clarity.
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