Minimal Increase in Use of Breast-Conserving Surgery from 1986 to 1990

Medical Care

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 479-489

  Nattinger, Ann B ^a,c   Gottlieb, Mark S ^a   Hoffman, Raymond G ^a   Walker, Alonzo P ^a   Goodwin, James S ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^c Div of General Internal Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Health Services Research; Mastectomy; Medicare

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MASS COMMUNICATION; MASTECTOMY; MEDICARE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MEDICARE PART A; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030136723     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199605000-00009     Document Type: Article

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