Enhancing cancer registry data to promote rational health system design

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 378-379

  Schrag, Deborah ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANCER CENTER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMORBIDITY; CONSENSUS; EDITORIAL; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; REGIONALIZATION; UNITED STATES; CARCINOMA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; REGISTER; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

CANCER CARE FACILITIES; CARCINOMA; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MEDICARE; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELECTION BIAS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41449088720     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djn060     Document Type: Editorial

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