Assessment of national practice for palliative radiation therapy for bone metastases suggests marked underutilization of single-fraction regimens in the united states

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 548-555

  Rutter, Charles E ^a,b   Yu, James B ^a,b   Wilson, Lynn D ^a,b   Park, Henry S ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES; HEALTH INSURANCE; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING;

BONE METASTASIS; CLINICAL PRACTICES; CURRENT PRACTICES; HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM; INDEPENDENT PREDICTORS; NATIONAL PRACTICES; PALLIATIVE RADIATIONS; SINGLE FRACTIONS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST CARE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA BASE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAID; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRAVEL; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; BONE NEOPLASMS; BREAST TUMOR; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECONDARY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84923250761     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2014.10.045     Document Type: Article

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