Development and implementation of guidelines for quality assurance in breast cancer screening: The european experience

Salud Publica de Mexico

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 318-328

  Von Karsa, Lawrence ^a   Arrossi, Silvina ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Mammography; Quality assurance; Systematic mammography screening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84881538393     PISSN: 00363634     EISSN: 16067916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21149/spm.v55i3.7215     Document Type: Article

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