Journal article
The wait time creep: Changes in the surgical wait time for women with uterine cancer in Ontario, Canada, during 2000–2009
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Uterine cancer is a major cancer of women, with outcomes potentially worsening with delayed diagnosis or hysterectomy, the main treatment. Yet cancer surgery wait times are not reported by cancer site. This study sought to examine changes in wait times for uterine cancer surgery between 2000 and 2009 and to identify predictors of longer surgery wait times.
METHODS: Population-based retrospective analysis of a cohort of uterine cancer …
Authors
O'Leary E; Elit L; Pond G; Seow H
Journal
Gynecologic Oncology, Vol. 131, No. 1, pp. 151–157
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
October 2013
DOI
10.1016/j.ygyno.2013.06.036
ISSN
0090-8258