Improving quality of cancer care at community hospitals: Impact of the National Cancer Institute Community Cancer Centers Program pilot

Journal of Oncology Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Halpern, Michael T ^a   Spain, Pamela ^a   Holden, Debra J ^a   Stewart, Andrew ^a   McNamara, Erica J ^a   Gay, Greer ^a   Das, Irene Prabhu ^a   Clauser, Steven ^a  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLON CANCER; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT CARE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE (U.S.); PILOT PROJECTS; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84894760658     PISSN: 15547477     EISSN: 1935469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JOP.2013.000937     Document Type: Article

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