Survival after breast cancer treatment: The impact of provider volume

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 749-757

  Bailie, Karen ^a   Dobie, Iain ^b   Kirk, Stephen ^b   Donnelly, Michael ^c  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ULSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Case mix; Surgeon workload; Survival

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRAFT; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SERVICE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTRATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 34548503181     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2006.00748.x     Document Type: Article

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