Quantifying limitations in chemotherapy data in administrative health databases: Implications for measuring the quality of colorectal cancer care

Healthcare Policy

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 32-40

  Urquhart, Robin ^a   Rayson, Daniel ^b,c   Porter, Geoffrey A ^b   Grunfeld, Eva ^d,e  

^a Cancer Outcomes Research Program   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Atlantic Clinical Cancer Research Unit   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLORECTAL CANCER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PATIENT CARE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY;

EID: 80052302232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17156572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12927/hcpol.2011.22520     Document Type: Article

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