League tables of breast cancer screening units: Worst-case and best-case scenario ratings helped in exposing real differences between performance ratings

Journal of Medical Screening

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 67-72

  Lemmers, Oscar ^a   Broeders, Mireille ^a   Verbeek, André ^a   Heeten, Gerard Den ^a   Holland, Roland ^a   Borm, George F ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CASE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ONCOLOGY WARD; PERFORMANCE; RATING SCALE; SCREENING TEST;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BENCHMARKING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 67650075014     PISSN: 09691413     EISSN: 14755793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jms.2009.008093     Document Type: Article

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