Muddy water? Variation in reporting receipt of breast cancer radiation therapy by population-based tumor registries

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 686-693

  Walker, Gary V ^a   Giordano, Sharon H ^a   Williams, Melanie ^b   Jiang, Jing ^a   Niu, Jiangong ^a   Mackinnon, Jill ^c   Anderson, Patricia ^c   Wohler, Brad ^c   Sinclair, Amber H ^d   Boscoe, Francis P ^d   Schymura, Maria J ^d   Buchholz, Thomas A ^a   Smith, Benjamin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; HEALTH INSURANCE; ONCOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS; TUMORS;

BREAST CANCER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA-SOURCES; GOLD STANDARDS; METHODS AND MATERIALS; MUDDY WATERS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; RADIATION ONCOLOGY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

AGED; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879232430     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2013.03.016     Document Type: Article

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