Point-of-care outcome assessment in the cancer clinic: Audit of data quality

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 339-343

  Wong, Karen ^a,b   Huang, Shao Hui ^b   O'Sullivan, Brian ^a,b   Lockwood, Gina ^b   Dale, Darlene ^b   Michaelson, Terry ^b   Waldron, John ^a,b   Bayley, Andrew ^a,b   Cummings, Bernard ^a,b   Dawson, Laura A ^a,b   Kim, John ^a,b   Liu, Geoffrey ^b   Ringash, Jolie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Audit; Cancer; Data system; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION INJURY; RANDOM SAMPLE; SECOND CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77952578710     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2010.03.015     Document Type: Article

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