Breast care is a team sport [6]

Breast Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 469-472

  Kaufman, Cary S ^a,b  

^a Natl Consortium of Breast Centers ^*  (United States)

^b Natl Consortium of Breast Centers   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST; BREAST CANCER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; LETTER; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATIENT CARE; SELF EVALUATION; TEAMWORK;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; FEMALE; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4644274937     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1075-122X.2004.21000.x     Document Type: Letter

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