Survivorship care after breast cancer: Follow-up practices of Australian health professionals and attitudes to a survivorship care plan

Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 116-125

  Brennan, Meagan E ^a,b   Butow, Phyllis ^b   Spillane, Andrew J ^b,c   Boyle, Frances M ^a,b  

^a Mater Hospital   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c Royal North Shore and Manly Hospitals   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Follow up; Shared care; Survivorship care plan

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL; SURVIVOR;

AUSTRALIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 77954100930     PISSN: 17437555     EISSN: 17437563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-7563.2010.01286.x     Document Type: Article

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