Surgeon and breast unit volume-outcome relationships in breast cancer surgery and treatment

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 258, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 808-814

  McDermott, Ailbhe M ^a   Wall, Deirdre M ^a   Waters, Peadar S ^a   Cheung, Shan ^b   Sibbering, Mark ^c,f   Horgan, Kieran ^d   Kearins, Olive ^b   Lawrence, Gill ^b   Patnick, Julietta ^e   Kerin, Michael J ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL DERBY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

^f ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast cancer management; Breast cancer screening; Surgeon volume; Volume outcome

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL INDICATOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TUMOR INVASION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84886086588     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3182a66eb0     Document Type: Article

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