Standards for Thoracic Surgical Oncology in a Single-Payer Healthcare System

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 693-701

  Sundaresan, Sudhir ^a   Langer, Bernard ^b   Oliver, Tom ^c   Schwartz, Farrah ^b   Brouwers, Melissa ^c   Stern, Hartley ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CANCER CARE ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d OTTAWA REGIONAL CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER CENTER; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; POPULATION SIZE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; REGIONALIZATION; REVIEW; STANDARD; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THORAX CANCER; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CANADA; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; SINGLE-PAYER SYSTEM; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34447561601     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.03.069     Document Type: Review

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