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However, comorbidity determined risk in the VA, whereas age and income predicted risk in the private sector. </jats:p><jats:p> Conclusions. Determinants of all-cause mortality in men with prostate cancer vary according to health care setting. </jats:p>","journal":"American Journal of Public Health","year":2003,"id":632506,"datarank":0.5676284450877392,"base_score":3.784189633918261,"endowment":3.784189633918261,"self_citation_contribution":0.5676284450877392,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.5676284450877392,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":43,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1639585,"name":"Ramon Durazo-Arvizu","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1639587,"name":"Ahsan M. 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Race tended to associate with all-cause mortality irrespective of health care setting (Blacks vs Whites: hazard rate ratio [HRR] = 1.68 [95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.06, 2.67]; P &lt; .001 in the private sector; HRR = 1.50 [95% CI = 0.94, 2.38]; P = .088 in the VA). However, comorbidity determined risk in the VA, whereas age and income predicted risk in the private sector. </jats:p><jats:p> Conclusions. 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