What will be the radiotherapy machine capacity required for optimal delivery of radiotherapy in Scotland in 2015?

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1802-1809

  Erridge, Sara C ^a   Featherstone, Carrie ^b   Chalmers, Ruth ^c   Campbell, Jillian ^d   Stockton, Diane ^d   Black, Roger ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BEATSON WEST OF SCOTLAND CANCER CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c Radiotherapy Activity Planning   (United Kingdom)

^d INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Capacity modelling; Population; Predictions; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FRACTIONATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SCOTLAND;

EID: 34547777358     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2007.05.022     Document Type: Article

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