Waiting Times for Cancer Surgery in Ontario: 1984-2000

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 401-409

  Bardell, T ^a,b   Belliveau, P ^a   Kong, W ^b   Mackillop, W J ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Administrative database; cancer; radiotherapy; surgery; waiting times

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANADA; CANCER CENTER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; COLON CANCER; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTECTOMY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; INCOME; LARYNX CANCER; LARYNX SURGERY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX; STOMACH CANCER; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

AGED; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ONTARIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TIME FACTORS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 33646078583     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2006.02.012     Document Type: Article

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