Variations in prostate cancer patterns of care: Is it the quality of care or the quality of the data?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 31, 2005, Pages 7783-7784

  Penson, David F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEN'S HEALTH; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED STATES; DECISION MAKING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PROSTATE TUMOR;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 32944461276     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.03.0353     Document Type: Editorial

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