Improving the lung cancer resection rate in the US department of Veterans Affairs health system

Clinical Lung Cancer

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 268-272

  Dransfield, Mark Thomas ^a   Lock, Brion Jacob ^a   Garver Jr , Robert I ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Non small cell lung cancer; Practice organization; Thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; THERAPY DELAY; TIME; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES; VETERAN;

EID: 33244479690     PISSN: 15257304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3816/CLC.2006.n.005     Document Type: Article

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