Exploring the surgeon volume-outcome relationship among women with breast cancer

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 1958-1963

  Nattinger, Ann Butler ^a   Laud, Purushottam W ^a   Sparapani, Rodney A ^a   Zhang, Xu ^a   Neuner, Joan M ^a   Gilligan, Mary Ann ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURGEON;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SURGERY; WORKLOAD;

EID: 35348993245     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.167.18.1958     Document Type: Article

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