Improving quality of breast cancer surgery through development of a national breast cancer surgical outcomes (BRCASO) research database

BMC Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Aiello Bowles, Erin J ^a   Feigelson, Heather S ^b   Barney, Tom ^c   Broecker, Katherine ^d   Sterrett, Andrew ^b   Bischoff, Kimberly ^b   Engel, Jessica ^e   Gundersen, Gabrielle ^a   Sheehey Jones, Johanna ^f   Single, Richard ^g   Onitilo, Adedayo ^e   James, Ted A ^g   McCahill, Laurence E ^c,d  

^a CENTER FOR HEALTH STUDIES   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^c VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Saint Mary's Health Care   (United States)

^e MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^f FLETCHER ALLEN HEALTH CARE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER SURGICAL OUTCOMES DATABASE; BREAST CARCINOMA; DATA BASE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; INVASIVE LUNG CARCINOMA; LETTER; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REOPERATION; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CARCINOMA; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH PLANNING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860887948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-12-136     Document Type: Letter

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