The consistency of panelists' appropriateness ratings: Do experts produce clinically logical scores for rectal cancer treatment?

Health Policy

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 57-65

  Hodgson, David C ^a,b,c   Brierley, James D ^a   Cernat, Geta ^b   Bondy, Susan ^b,c   Slaughter, Pamela M ^b   Pinfold, S Patricia ^b   Paszat, Lawrence F ^b,c  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cinically logical scores; Rectal cancer treatment; Specialty groups

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECTUM CARCINOMA;

AGED; CANADA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 9644291700     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2004.05.004     Document Type: Article

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