Breast cancer care: changing community standards
| Autor: | Joan E. Cunningham, Tommy E. Cupples, Paul L. Guerry, William M. Butler, Douglas Bull, James C. Reynolds, C. Alden Sweatman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Adjuvant chemotherapy South Carolina Breast Neoplasms Hospitals Community Mastectomy Segmental Small breast Breast cancer Oncology Service Hospital medicine Humans Community standards Practice Patterns Physicians' Program Development skin and connective tissue diseases Intensive care medicine Hospitals Teaching Gynecology Breast conservation business.industry Health Policy Biopsy Needle Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health medicine.disease Community hospital Women's Health Services Care in the Community Databases as Topic Chemotherapy Adjuvant Needle biopsy Female business Case Management Mammography Total Quality Management |
| Zdroj: | Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality. 26(5) |
| ISSN: | 1062-2551 |
| Popis: | A community hospital-based program was developed to improve breast cancer care in the community. A consensus was developed for what should be optimal care; a database was established to document the care being delivered in the community; and the data were analyzed to document changes in practice patterns over time. The major clinical benefits to patients included a significant improvement in needle biopsy rates, decreased utilization of second operative procedures, increased breast conservation surgery, conformity to guidelines for adjuvant chemotherapy administration, and a sizable increase in discovery of small breast cancers by screening mammography. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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