Time to treatment as a quality metric in lung cancer: Staging studies, time to treatment, and patient survival

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 257-263

  Gomez, Daniel R ^a   Liao, Kai Ping ^a   Swisher, Stephen G ^a   Blumenschein, George R ^a   Erasmus, Jeremy J ^a   Buchholz, Thomas A ^a   Giordano, Sharon H ^a   Smith, Benjamin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Medicare claims; Quality of care analysis; SEER database; Timeliness of care

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; THERAPY DELAY; TIME TO TREATMENT; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VERY ELDERLY; LUNG TUMOR; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84931575728     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2015.04.010     Document Type: Article

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