Assessing the quality of colorectal cancer care: Do we have appropriate quality measures? (A systematic review of literature)

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 831-845

  Patwardhan, Meenal ^a,b,c,d   Fisher, Deborah A ^b   Mantyh, Christopher R ^b,c   McCrory, Douglas C ^b,c   Morse, Michael A ^b   Prosnitz, Robert G ^b   Cline, Kathryn ^b   Samsa, Gregory P ^b  

^a Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Quality measures; Quality of care; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 36248968734     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2006.00762.x     Document Type: Article

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