National Breast Cancer Audit: The use of multidisciplinary care teams by breast surgeons in Australia and New Zealand

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 188, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 385-386

  Marsh, Claire J ^a   Boult, Margaret ^a   Wang, Jim X ^a   Maddern, Guy J ^a,b   Roder, David M ^c   Kollias, James ^a  

^a ROYAL AUSTRALASIAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT CARE; PRIVATE PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; TEAMWORK; URBAN AREA; BREAST TUMOR; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS;

AUSTRALIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 46249125408     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01680.x     Document Type: Article

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