Is Cancer Diagnosis Following Emergency Admission Due to Patient Delay or Systems Failure: New Insights from a Comprehensive Primary Care Dataset
ABSTRACT Objectives A significant proportion (13.9-21.8%) of cancers are diagnosed during emergency admissions to hospital. Patients who are diagnosed in this way have poorer outcomes. Cancer type, increasing age, and deprivation have shown to be associated with cancer diagnosis as an emergency....
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Swansea University
2017-04-01
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Series: | International Journal of Population Data Science |
Online Access: | https://ijpds.org/article/view/350 |