Do multidisciplinary team meetings make a difference in the management of lung cancer?

Cancer

Volumn 117, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 5112-5120

  Boxer, Miriam M ^a   Vinod, Shalini K ^a,b   Shafiq, Jesmin ^a,b   Duggan, Kirsten J ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

chemotherapy; lung neoplasms; multidisciplinary teams; palliative care; radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS COMMUNICATION; MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM MEETING; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE TEAM; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 80555150826     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26149     Document Type: Article

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