Predictors of variation in colorectal cancer care and outcomes in New South Wales: A population-based health data linkage study

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 200, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 403-407

  Jorgensen, Mikaela L ^a   Young, Jane M ^a   Dobbins, Timothy A ^a   Solomon, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b SYDNEY LOCAL HEALTH DISTRICT   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER THERAPY; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHILD; COLORECTAL CANCER; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; SOCIOECONOMICS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; VERY ELDERLY; WOUND INFECTION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECTUM TUMOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INPATIENTS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEW SOUTH WALES; PATIENT READMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84903774380     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja13.10710     Document Type: Article

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