Targeting social and economic correlates of cancer treatment appointment keeping among immigrant Chinese patients. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Chinese immigrants have high rates of a variety of cancers and face numerous social and economic barriers to cancer treatment appointment keeping. This study is a nested cohort of 82 Chinese patients participating in the Immigrant Cancer Portal Project. Twenty-two percent reported having missed appointments for oncology follow-up, radiation therapy, and/or chemotherapy. Patients most commonly reported needing assistance with financial support to enable appointment keeping. Efforts to further address social and economic correlates in cancer care should be developed for this population.

publication date

  • February 1, 2011

Research

keywords

  • Appointments and Schedules
  • Asian
  • Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
  • Neoplasms
  • Patient Preference

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC3042088

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 79952250884

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1002/1097-0142(19950301)75:5<1135::AID-CNCR2820750513>3.0.CO;2-M

PubMed ID

  • 21246300

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 88

issue

  • 1