Correction: The quality of supportive cancer care in the veterans affairs health system and targets for improvement (JAMA Internal Medicine (2013) 173, 22 (2071-2079) DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.10797);The quality of supportive cancer care in the veterans affairs health system and targets for improvement

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 2071-2079

  Walling, Anne M ^a,b,c   Tisnado, Diana ^a,b   Asch, Steven M ^d,e   Malin, Jennifer M ^a,b   Pantoja, Philip ^a   Dy, Sydney M ^f   Ettner, Susan L ^a,g   Zisser, Ann P ^a   Schreibeis Baum, Hannah ^a   Lee, Martin ^a   Lorenz, Karl A ^a,b,c  

^a VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^d VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; OPIATE;

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS CANCER; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPPORTIVE CANCER CARE; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; VETERAN;

EID: 84890720366     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: 21686114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.5360     Document Type: Erratum

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