Indicators of breast cancer severity and appropriateness of surgery based on hospital administrative data in the Lazio Region, Italy

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Schifano, Patrizia ^a   Papini, Paolo ^b   Agabiti, Nera ^b   Scarinci, Marina ^c   Borgia, Piero ^b   Perucci, Carlo A ^a  

^a Department of Epidemiology   (Italy)

^b Agency for Public Health   (Italy)

^c Lazio Local Health Unit   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CALCULATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ITALY; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANDOMIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; ADULT; AGE; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANCER CENTER; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; ITALY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 33645453663     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-25     Document Type: Article

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