German Bowel Cancer Center: An Attempt to Improve Treatment Quality

Gastroenterology Research and Practice

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Jannasch, Olof ^a   Udelnow, Andrej ^a   Wolff, Stefanie ^a   Lippert, Hans ^b   Mroczkowski, Pawel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CERTIFICATION; DISTANT METASTASIS; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECTUM CANCER; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

EID: 84929648997     PISSN: 16876121     EISSN: 1687630X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/456476     Document Type: Article

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