Quality gaps and comparative effectiveness in lung cancer staging and diagnosis

Chest

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 331-345

  Ost, David E ^a   Niu, Jiangong ^b   Elting, Linda S ^b   Buchholz, Thomas A ^a   Giordano, Sharon H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Health Services Research ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA BASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE GUIDED BIOPSY; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL METASTASIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVEILLANCE, EPIDEMIOLOGY, AND END RESULTS; TEXAS CANCER REGISTRY; THORACOTOMY; TRANSBRONCHIAL ASPIRATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; COHORT STUDIES; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEER PROGRAM; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84893705318     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.13-1599     Document Type: Article

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