Optimizing the quality of Breast Cancer care at certified German Breast centers: A benchmarking analysis for 2003-2009 with a particular focus on the interdisciplinary specialty of radiation oncology

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 89-99

  Brucker, Sara Y ^a   Wallwiener, Markus ^b   Kreienberg, Rolf ^c   Jonat, Walter ^d   Beckmann, Matthias W ^e   Bamberg, Michael ^f   Wallwiener, Diethelm ^a   Souchon, Rainer ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Breast cancer; Quality assurance; Quality of care; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CERTIFICATION; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COOPERATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; STANDARD; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

BENCHMARKING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; ONCOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT;

EID: 79954436730     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-010-2202-6     Document Type: Review

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