Underuse of long-term routine hospital follow-up care in patients with a history of breast cancer?

BMC Cancer

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lu, Wenli ^a,b   Jansen, Liesbeth ^a   Schaapveld, Michael ^c   Baas, Peter C ^d   Wiggers, Theo ^a   De Bock, Geertruida H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Integraal Kankercentrum Noord Nederland   (Netherlands)

^d Comprehensive Cancer Centre North Netherlands ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasm; Follow up; Mammography; Utilization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; AFTERCARE; BREAST TUMOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NETHERLANDS; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; RADIOGRAPHY; SECOND CANCER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS;

ADULT; AFTERCARE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; NETHERLANDS; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 79959548751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-11-279     Document Type: Article

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