Using breast cancer quality indicators in a vulnerable population

Cancer

Volumn 117, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 3311-3321

  Chen, Formosa ^a,b,c   Puig, Melissa ^d   Yermilov, Irina ^a   Malin, Jennifer ^c   Schneider, Eric C ^e,f,g   Epstein, Arnold M ^e,f   Kahn, Katherine L ^h,i   Ganz, Patricia A ^h   Gibbons, Melinda Maggard ^a,b,c  

^a OLIVE VIEW UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Riverside County Hospital   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g RAND Boston   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer; disparities; quality indicators; quality of care

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 79960696746     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25915     Document Type: Article

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