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Widening demographic gaps in CAR-T therapy utilization for multiple myeloma in the United States

Mingqian Lin, Noel Estrada-Merly, Mary Eapen… in Bone Marrow Transplantation (2023)

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Prevalence of Race/Ethnicity Reporting in Light Chain (AL) Amyloidosis Clinical Research in the USA

Little is known about racial differences in the incidence of light chain (AL) amyloidosis despite the well-documented racial disparities in the epidemiology of other plasma cell disorders. The goal of this stu...

Mingqian Lin, Liliana E. Pezzin… in Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Dispar… (2023)

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Medication delivery factors and adjuvant endocrine therapy adherence in breast cancer

Over 50% of breast cancer patients prescribed a 5-year course of daily oral adjuvant endocrine therapy (ET) are nonadherent. We investigated the role of costs and cancer medication delivery mode and other medi...

Joan M. Neuner, Nicole Fergestrom… in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment (2023)

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Guideline-concordant treatment predicts survival: a National Cancer Database validation study of novel composite locoregional and systemic treatment scores among women with early stage breast cancer

The aim of this large nationwide study was to validate two novel composite treatment scores that address guideline-concordant locoregional and systemic breast cancer care. We examined the relationship between ...

Tina W. F. Yen, Zhu** Garacci, Purushottam W. Laud, Liliana E. Pezzin… in Breast Cancer (2021)

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Prevalence and scope of advanced practice provider oncology care among Medicare beneficiaries with breast cancer

Advanced practice providers (APPs) have increasingly become members of the oncology care team. Little is known about the scope of care that APPs are performing nationally. We determined the prevalence and exte...

Tina W. F. Yen, Purushottam W. Laud… in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment (2020)

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Temporal trends and regional variation in the utilization of low-value breast cancer care: has the Choosing Wisely campaign made a difference?

Since 2012, about 80 specialty societies have released Choosing Wisely (CW) recommendations aimed at reducing the use of low-value, unproven, or ineffective medical services. The extent to which these recommen...

Joan M. Neuner, Ann B. Nattinger, Tina Yen… in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment (2019)

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The relationship between patient and tumor characteristics, patterns of breast cancer care, and 5-year survival among elderly women with incident breast cancer

To examine the relationship between patient and tumor characteristics, patterns of breast cancer care, and 5-year survival among a population-based cohort of elderly women with incident breast cancer, with a s...

Amanda L. Kong, Ann B. Nattinger, Emily McGinley… in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment (2018)

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Socioeconomic status and breast cancer treatment

Evidence suggests substantial disparities in breast cancer survival by socioeconomic status (SES). We examine the extent to which receipt of newer, less invasive, or more effective treatments—a plausible sourc...

Marie S. Dreyer, Ann B. Nattinger… in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment (2018)

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Identifying patterns of breast cancer care provided at high-volume hospitals: a classification and regression tree analysis

There is a growing body of literature linking hospital volume to outcomes in breast cancer. However, the mechanism through which volume influences outcome is poorly understood. The purpose of this study was to...

Amanda L. Kong, Liliana E. Pezzin, Ann B. Nattinger in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment (2015)

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Long-term care of the disabled elderly: do children increase caregiving by spouses?

Do adult children affect the care elderly parents provide each other? We develop two models in which the anticipated behavior of adult children provides incentives for nondisabled elderly parents to increase c...

Liliana E. Pezzin, Robert A. Pollak… in Review of Economics of the Household (2009)

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Parental marital disruption and intergenerational transfers: An analysis of lone elderly parents and their children

Although one of the most marked demographic trends observed over the twentieth century is the increased rate of divorce, relatively little research has explored the effects of these changing marital patterns i...

Liliana E. Pezzin, Barbara Steinberg Schone in Demography (1999)

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The Effect of Public Provision of Home Care on Living and Care Arrangements: Evidence from the Channeling Experiment

Public financing of long term care in the United States is limited largely to nursing home care for low income persons through the Medicaid program. The states and federal government have extended some financi...

Peter Kemper, Liliana E. Pezzin in Long-Term Care: Economic Issues and Policy Solutions (1996)

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Earnings prospects, matching effects, and the decision to terminate a criminal career

This study represents an effort to investigate the age pattern of criminal involvement from an economist's perspective. It presents a dynamic stochastic model of sequential search and match evaluation which is...

Liliana E. Pezzin in Journal of Quantitative Criminology (1995)