Cancer care coordinators: What are they and what will they cost?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 126, Issue 1381, 2013, Pages 75-86

  Collinson, Lucie ^a   Foster, Rachel H ^a   Stapleton, Maria ^b   Blakely, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b Mid Central Health District Health Board ^*  (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; COLON CANCER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MODEL; NEOPLASM; NURSE; NURSING KNOWLEDGE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SURVIVAL;

CASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84883289233     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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