Are mastectomy rates a reasonable quality measure of breast cancer surgery?

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 216-221

  McCahill, Laurence E ^a   Privette, Alicia R ^a   Hart, Michael R ^a   James, Ted A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Mastectomy rate; Quality measures; Surgical outcomes

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VERMONT;

EID: 58649118225     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2007.12.056     Document Type: Article

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