Quality assured health care in certified breast centers and improvement of the prognosis of breast cancer patients

Onkologie

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 362-367

  Beckmann, Matthias W ^a,b   Brucker, Cosima ^b,c   Hanf, Volker ^d   Rauh, Claudia ^a   Bani, Mayada R ^a   Knob, Stefanie ^d   Petsch, Sabrina ^b   Schick, Stefan ^b   Fasching, Peter A ^a,b,e   Hartmann, Arndt ^a,b   Lux, Michael P ^a   Häberle, Lothar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c KLINIKUM NÜRNBERG   (Germany)

^d Breast Center   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast center; Certification; Prognosis; Quality assured health care; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROGNOSIS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CERTIFICATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ONCOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960157370     PISSN: 0378584X     EISSN: 14230240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000329601     Document Type: Article

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