Impact of weekend admissions on quality of care and outcomes in patients with acute myeloid leukemia

Cancer

Volumn 116, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 3614-3620

  Bejanyan, Nelli ^a   Fu, Alex Z ^a   Lazaryan, Aleksandr ^a   Fu, Rao ^b   Kalaycio, Matt ^a   Advani, Anjali ^a   Sobecks, Ronald ^a   Copelan, Edward ^a   Maciejewski, Jaroslaw P ^a   Sekeres, Mikkael A ^a  

^a TAUSSIG CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute myeloid leukemia; Chemotherapy; Hospital admission; Length of stay; Mortality; Treatment delay; Triple lumen catheter; Weekend admission

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; ANTHRAQUINONE; CYTARABINE; ETOPOSIDE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CATHETER; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG INFUSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CATHETERIZATION; CYTARABINE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REMISSION INDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955397987     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25086     Document Type: Article

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