The Hospital de Câncer de Barretos Registry: An analysis of cancer survival at a single institution in Brazil over a 10-year period

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Carneseca, Estela Cristina ^a   Mauad, Edmundo Carvalho ^a   Araujo, Marcos Aurélio Alves De ^a   Dalbó, Rafael Macrina ^a   Longatto Filho, Adhemar ^a,b,c,d   Vazquez, Vinicius De Lima ^a  

^a BARRETOS CANCER HOSPITAL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cancer hospital registry; Data quality; Descriptive study; Follow up; Survival

Indexed keywords

GOBIOIDES;

AGED; BRAZIL; CANCER CENTER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; ARTICLE; NEOPLASM;

AGED; BRAZIL; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84875953963     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-6-141     Document Type: Article

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