External audit on the clinical practice and medical decision-making at the departments of radiotherapy in Budapest and Vienna

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 87-94

  Ésik, Olga ^a   Seitz, Wolfgang ^b   Lövey, József ^a   Knocke, Tomas H ^b   Gaudi, István ^c   Németh, György ^a   Pötter, Richard ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b Clin for Radiother and Radiobiol   (Austria)

^c ALFRÉD RÉNYI INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Clinical practice; External audit; Medical decision making; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AUSTRIA; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; HUNGARY; MEDICAL AUDIT; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 0344759161     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(98)00144-3     Document Type: Article

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