Actionable indicators for short and long term outcomes in rectal cancer

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1808-1814

  Gort, Marjan ^a,b   Otter, Renée ^a   Plukker, John Th M ^c   Broekhuis, Manda ^b   Klazinga, Niek S ^d  

^a Integraal Kankercentrum Noord Nederland   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Outcomes; Quality improvement Indicators; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FISTULA; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NECROSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; STOMA BOWEL NECROSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NETHERLANDS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH FACILITY SIZE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953478206     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2010.02.044     Document Type: Article

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