Organizational Factors Affect Safety-Net Hospitals’ Breast Cancer Treatment Rates

Health Services Research

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 2137-2155

  Bickell, Nina A ^a   Moss, Alexandra DeNardis ^b   Castaldi, Maria ^c   Shah, Ajay ^d   Sickles, Alan ^e   Pappas, Peter ^f   Lewis, Theophilus ^g   Kemeny, Margaret ^h   Arora, Shalini ⁱ   Schleicher, Lori ^j   Fei, Kezhen ^a   Franco, Rebeca ^a   McAlearney, Ann Scheck ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JACOBI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BRONX LEBANON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^e LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f BROOKLYN HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^g KINGS COUNTY HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^h QUEENS HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ ELMHURST HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^j NEWARK BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

breast cancer; Cancer care quality; coordination; organizational approaches; qualitative comparative analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LUMPECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SAFETY NET HOSPITAL; AGE; AGED; BREAST TUMOR; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; SAFETY-NET PROVIDERS;

EID: 85004187403     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12605     Document Type: Article

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