Radiation therapy for small-cell lung cancer: results of the 1995–1997 patterns of care process survey in Japan

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• 作者：Uno ; Takashi ; Sumi ; Minako ; Ikeda ; Hiroshi ; Teshima ; Teruki ; Yamashita ; Mikiko ; Inoue ; Toshihiko ; et. al.
• 关键词：Patterns of Care Study ; Small-cell lung cancer ; Radiation therapy ; Process survey ; Clinical practice
• 刊名：Lung Cancer
• 出版年：2002
• 出版时间：March, 2002
• 年：2002
• 卷：35
• 期：3
• 页码：279-285
• 全文大小：86.2 K

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The Patterns of Care Study (PCS) conducted a nationwide audit survey in order to establish the national practice process of radiation therapy for small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) and examined the influence of institutional stratification on the process of care in Japan. The PCS randomly sampled institutions and patients using a two-stage cluster method and surveyed the process of radiation therapy for 174 stage I–III SCLC patients according to the category of institution, stratified as follows: A1, academic institutions treating ≥300 patients a year; A2, <300 patients; B1, non-academic institutions treating ≥120 patients a year; and B2, <120 patients. Karnofsky performance status distributions showed significant variance by stratification of institutions (P