Improvement in clinical TNM staging documentation within a prostate cancer quality improvement collaborative

Urology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 781-787

  Filson, Christopher P ^a,b   Boer, Brooke ^a,c   Curry, Jon ^a,c   Linsell, Susan ^a,b   Ye, Zaojun ^a,b   Montie, James E ^a,b   Miller, David C ^a,b  

^a Michigan Urological Surgery Improvement Collaborative   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Urologic Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FIRST DEGREE RELATIVE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SECOND DEGREE RELATIVE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UROLOGIST;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; MALE; MICHIGAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROLOGY;

EID: 84897129377     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2013.11.040     Document Type: Article

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