Health care systems as research platforms
Subtitle: the cancer research network
By: [edited by], T.M. Vogt, E.H. Wagner.
Contributors: Vogt, Thomas M.; Wagner, Edward H. 1940-
Series: Journal of the National Cancer Institute -- 2005, no. 35.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bethesda, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: Cancer Research Network (Organization).; Breast -- Cancer -- Research -- United States.; Breast -- Cancer -- Treatment -- United States.; Cancer -- Research -- United States.; Health facilities -- United States.; Women's Health.; Socioeconomic Factors.; Breast Neoplasms.; Delivery of Health Care.
Notes: Title from cover.

"Sponsored by the National Cancer Institute Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, Applied Research Program"--P. [iii].

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: CRN structure and function; value: Building a research consortium of large health systems: the Cancer Research Network; value: Building a virtual cancer research organization; value: Measuring and improving performance in multicenter research consortia; value: CRN core project findings; value: Detect; value: Characteristics of women refusing follow-up tests or symptoms suggestive of breast cancer; value: Late-stage breast cancer among women with recent negative screening mammography: do clinical encounters offer opportunity for earlier detection?; value: Breast and cervical cancer screening: clinicians' view on health plan guidelines and implementation efforts; value: Protects; value: Women's decision-making roles regarding contralateral prophylactic mastectomy; value: Complications following bilateral prophylactic mastectomy; value: Screening clinical breast examination: how often does it miss lethal breast cancer?; value: Race and ethnicity: comparing medical records to self-reports; value: Relationship between tobacco control policies and the delivery of smoking cessation services in nonprofit HMOs; value: Creating standard cost measures across integrated health care delivery systems; value: CRN affiliated project finding; value: Racial disparities in cancer care and survival; value: Disparities and survival among breast cancer patients; value: Racial and age differences in colon examination surveillance following a diagnosis of colorectal cancer; value: Participation of Asian-American women in cancer treatment research: a pilot study; value: Translation and dissemination of hormone therapy research; value: Changes in women's use of hormones after the women's health initiative estrogen and progestin trial by race, education, and income; value: Health system responses to the women's health initiative findings on estrogen and protestin: organizational response; value: Uses of automated data; value: An automated data algorithm to distinguish screening and diagnostic colorectal cancer endoscopy exams.