Will patients benefit from regionalization of gynecologic cancer care?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Brookfield, Kathleen F ^a   Cheung, Michael C ^a   Yang, Relin ^a   Byrne, Margaret M ^a   Koniaris, Leonidas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; GYNECOLOGIC CARE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY CANCER; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; REGIONALIZATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS SARCOMA; VULVA CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FLORIDA; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 59249109543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004049     Document Type: Article

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