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Social variations in access to hospital care for patients with colorectal, breast and lung cancer between 1999 and 2006
— retrospective analysis of hospital episode statistics | | Author(s) | Rosalind Raine, Wun Wong, Shaun Scholes |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, no 7741, 6 February 2010 |
| Pages | p 302 |
| Source | www.bmj.com BMJ 2010;340:b5479 |
| Keywords | Cancer ; Admission [hospitals] ; Socio-economic groups ; Cross sectional surveys ; England. |
| Annotation | Does type of hospital admission (emergency compared with elective) and surgical procedure for colorectal, breast and lung cancer vary by socioeconomic circumstances, age, sex and year of admission? Despite the implementation of the NHS Cancer Plan, social factors still strongly influence access to and the provision of care in England. The Plan aimed to improve outcomes overall to reduce health inequalities. In this study, living in deprived areas and being male were associated with lower likelihood of receiving preferred surgical procedures for cancers with in the National Health Service (NHS). Older people were more likely to receive the preferred surgical procedure for rectal cancer, but less likely to receive breast conserving surgery and lung cancer resection. This a summary of a cross-sectional study of 564,821 patients aged 50+ admitted to hospitals in England between 1 April 1999 and 31 March 2009 with these cancers (and published on bmj.com). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100212202 A |
| Classmark | CK: LD:QKH: T4: 3KB: 82 * |
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