Evaluation of time, attendance of medical staff, and resources during radiotherapy for breast cancer patients: The DEGRO-QUIRO trial

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 113-119

  Blank, E ^a   Willich, N ^b   Fietkau, R ^c   Popp, W ^d   Schaller Steiner, J ^d   Sack, H ^e   Wenz, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d Prime Networks AG   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Costs and cost analysis; Medical staff; Radiotherapy; Time factors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; INTRAOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PHYSICIAN; RADIOLOGIST; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; WORKFLOW; WORKING TIME; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREVALENCE; RADIOTHERAPY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WORKLOAD;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; RADIOTHERAPY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84858062318     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-011-0020-0     Document Type: Article

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