Integrating regional and community lung cancer services to improve patient care

Current Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 234-237

  Dahele, M ^a   Ung, Y ^a   Meharchand, J ^b   Shulman, H ^c   Zeldin, R ^b   Behzadi, A ^d   Simone, C ^b   Cheng, S ^d   Weigensberg, C ^e   Sivjee, K ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

^b TORONTO EAST GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e SCARBOROUGH HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

clinical network; Health care organization; lung cancer; multidisciplinary clinic; multidisciplinary team; tumour board

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953697907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17187729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3747/co.2007.157     Document Type: Article

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