A Quality Review of the Timeliness of Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment in an Integrated Breast Center

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 210, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 449-455

  Landercasper, Jeffrey ^a   Linebarger, Jared H ^a   Ellis, Richard L ^a   Mathiason, Michelle A ^a   Johnson, Jeanne M ^a   Marcou, Kristen A ^a   De Maiffe, Brooke M ^a   Jago, Gayle S ^a  

^a GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONSULTATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949903634     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2010.01.015     Document Type: Article

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