发病率和死亡率:延迟我患者的癌症护理
1Arifeen S. Rahman (arifeenr@stanford.edu) is a resident physician in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine, in Stanford, California. The author is solely responsible for the accuracy of the information presented in this article. Any views or opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author, and no endorsement of these views or opinions by the author's institutions is expressed or implied. A pseudonym, Ms. A, is used for the patient's name to protect their privacy. To access the authors' disclosures, click on the Details tab of the article online.
癌症治疗的延迟可能会对患者的治疗结果产生重大影响. 这项分析检查了患者延长等待时间的根本原因.
科学领域:
- 在瘤学瘤学.
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
- 患者倡导 患者倡导
背景情况:
- 及时诊断和治疗对于有效的癌症护理至关重要.
- 医疗保健系统在提供及时医疗服务方面面临挑战.
- 患者导航在获得护理方面发挥着至关重要的作用.
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