Multidisciplinary team conferences promote treatment according to guidelines in rectal cancer

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 447-453

  Brännström, Fredrik ^a   Bjerregaard, Jon K ^b   Winbladh, Anders ^c   Nilbert, Mef ^d,e   Revhaug, Arthur ^f   Wagenius, Gunnar ^g   Mörner, Malin ^g  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^g KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LOW VOLUME HOSPITAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EDUCATION; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; AGE; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; ODDS RATIO; ORGANIZATION; PATHOLOGY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REGISTER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SWEDEN;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HOSPITALS, LOW-VOLUME; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; SWEDEN;

EID: 84925405470     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0284186X.2014.952387     Document Type: Article

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