Breast cancer units - Improvement in care or expensive "wishful thinking"?

Breast

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 199-200

  Senkus, Elzbieta ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANCER CENTER; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; ONCOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 84899972040     PISSN: 09609776     EISSN: 15323080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.breast.2014.03.010     Document Type: Editorial

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