Case management used to optimize cancer care pathways: A systematic review

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wulff, Christian N ^a,b   Thygesen, Marianne ^c   Søndergaard, Jens ^c   Vedsted, Peter ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; CASE MANAGEMENT; CLINICAL PATHWAY; NEOPLASM; REVIEW;

CASE MANAGEMENT; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 57249086525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-8-227     Document Type: Article

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