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Determinants of surgeon referral and radiation therapy receipt following breast conservation among older women with early-stage breast cancer

2021-03-19

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Purpose Guidelines for early-stage breast cancer allow for radiotherapy (RT) omission following breast conserving surgery (BCS) among older women, though high utilization of RT persists. This study explores surgeon referral and the effect of a productivity-based bonus metric for radiation oncologists in an academic institution with centralized quality assurance (QA) review. Methods We...

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Literature Corpus work: 3a8cc5b1-aa07-5a2b-be07-3cc8abb97279
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-305708/v1

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