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The Impact of Surgeon Referral and a Radiation Oncologist Productivity-Based Metric on Radiotherapy Receipt Among Elderly Women with Early-Stage Breast Cancer: Analysis from a Tertiary Cancer Network

2021-07-30

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Purpose: </bold>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...

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Literature Corpus work: aeab7c1b-1aad-5c50-91eb-04d0c8b82243
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-708312/v1

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