Health care systems as research platforms
Subtitle: the cancer research network
By: [edited by] T.M. Vogt, E.H. Wagner
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
ISBN-13: 9780199296996
Subjects: Breast; Cancer; Research; Treatment; Health facilities; Biomedical Research; Neoplasms; Delivery of Health Care; Socioeconomic Factors; Women's Health Services; Cancer Research Network (Organization)
Notes: "Sponsored by the National Cancer Institute Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, Applied Research Program"--P. [iii].

Title from cover.

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