Effects of multidisciplinary team working on breast cancer survival: Retrospective, comparative, interventional cohort study of 13 722 women

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 344, Issue 7856, 2012, Pages

  Kesson, Eileen M ^a,d   Allardice, Gwen M ^a,d   George, W David ^b   Burns, Harry J G ^c   Morrison, David S ^d  

^a GARTNAVEL ROYAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM WORKING; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TEAMWORK; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREND STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; ONCOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND; STATE MEDICINE; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 84860906122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e2718     Document Type: Article

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