Trends in childhood cancer mortality as indicators of the quality of medical care in the developed world

Cancer

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2223-2227

  La Vecchia, Carlo ^a,b   Levi, Fabio ^c   Lucchini, Franca ^c   Lagiou, Pagona ^b   Trichopoulos, Dimitrios ^b   Negri, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Childhood leukemia; Childhood malignancies; Quality of care; Trends

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; LEUKEMIA; MALE; NEOPLASMS; NEW ZEALAND; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032533279     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19981115)83:10<2223::AID-CNCR23>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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