Do specialists do it better? The impact of specialization on the processes and outcomes of care for cancer patients

Pain and Its Treatment in Outpatients with Metastatic Cancer

1994 • 2,012 citations

Randomized versus historical controls for clinical trials

1982 • 833 citations

Geographic Variation in the Use of Breast-Conserving Treatment for Breast Cancer

1992 • 553 citations

Assessing the Quality of Randomization From Reports of Controlled Trials Published in Obstetrics and Gynecology Journals

1994 • 477 citations

Routine follow up of breast cancer in primary care: randomised trial

1996 • 395 citations

Survival outcome of care by specialist surgeons in breast cancer: a study of 3786 patients in the west of Scotland

1996 • 314 citations

Patient and Hospital Characteristics Related to In-Hospital Mortality after Lung Cancer Resection

1992 • 294 citations

Management of ovarian cancer: referral to a multidisciplinary team matters

1994 • 279 citations

The impact of subspecialty training on the management of advanced ovarian cancer

1992 • 272 citations

Centralised treatment, entry to trials and survival

1994 • 252 citations

Soft tissue sarcoma should be treated at a tumor center: A comparison of quality of surgery in 375 patients

1994 • 225 citations

Retinoblastoma in Great Britain 1969-80: incidence, treatment, and survival.

1988 • 202 citations

Physician and Hospital Factors Associated With Mortality of Surgical Patients

1986 • 199 citations

The influence of the operating surgeon's specialisation on patient survival in ovarian carcinoma

1994 • 166 citations

Treatment Differences and Other Prognostic Factors Related to Breast Cancer Survival

1994 • 162 citations

Benefits from specialised cancer care

1996 • 161 citations

Centralisation of treatment and survival rates for cancer.

1988 • 144 citations

Ovarian cancer staging: Does it require a gynecologic oncologist?

1992 • 141 citations

National survey of ovarian carcinoma part V. The impact of physician's specialty on patients' survival

1993 • 138 citations

Treatment centre size, entry to trials, and survival in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

1989 • 134 citations

Volume and outcome in coronary artery bypass graft surgery: true association or artefact?

1995 • 113 citations

Survival in Childhood Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia: Effect of Protocol and Place of Treatment

1983 • 113 citations

Hospital Variables Associated With Quality of Care for Breast Cancer Patients

1991 • 112 citations

Determinants of receiving breast-conserving surgery. The surveillance, epidemiology, and end results program, 1983–1986

1994 • 107 citations

Nonclinical factors associated with surgery received for treatment of early-stage breast cancer.

1992 • 100 citations

Influence of place of treatment on diagnosis, treatment, and survival in three pediatric solid tumors.

1984 • 91 citations

Does it matter where you live? Treatment variation for breast cancer in Yorkshire

1995 • 88 citations

Integrated care for diabetes: clinical, psychosocial, and economic evaluation

1994 • 83 citations

Variation in breast cancer surgery in Ontario.

1994 • 77 citations

Survival with bladder cancer, evaluation of delay in treatment, type of surgeon, and modality of treatment.

1991 • 72 citations

Breast-conserving surgery for breast cancer: Patterns of care in a geographic region and estimation of potential applicability

1995 • 68 citations

Hodgkin's Disease in the United States: A Comparison of Patient Characteristics and Survival in the Centralized Cancer Patient Data System and the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program<xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN2">2</xref>

1987 • 63 citations

Geographical variation in cancer patient survival in Finland: chance, confounding, or effect of treatment?

1990 • 56 citations

Variations in breast cancer management between a teaching and a non-teaching district

1992 • 53 citations

Evaluating primary care follow-up of breast cancer: Methods and preliminary results of three studies

1995 • 44 citations

Survival from acute non-lymphocytic leukaemia, 1971-88: a population based study.

1994 • 44 citations

Patterns of care in carcinoma of the ovary

2010 • 43 citations

Referral patterns of childhood brain tumors in the state of connecticut

1982 • 43 citations

Response to the National Cancer Institute alert: The effect of practice guidelines on two hospitals in the same medical community

1993 • 40 citations

CHEMOTHERAPY FOR THE PRIMARY TREATMENT OF OSTEOSARCOMA: POPULATION EFFECTIVENESS OVER 20 YEARS

1988 • 31 citations

Appropriateness and variation of surgical treatment of breast cancer in Italy: When excellence in clinical research does not match with generalized good quality care

1995 • 31 citations

The Quality of Breast Cancer Care in Local Communities

1994 • 30 citations

Outcome-Based Equity in the Treatment of Colon Cancer Patients in Finland

1989 • 25 citations

Diagnosis and First-Line Treatment of Breast Cancer in Italian General Hospitals

1986 • 24 citations

Case‐survival rates for infiltrating ductal carcinomas by category of hospital at diagnosis in South Australia

1991 • 24 citations

Cancer staging may have different meanings in academic and community hospitals

1991 • 21 citations

Variation in Use of Breast-Conserving Surgery in Lombardia, Italy

1995 • 19 citations

Inappropriate Halsted mastectomy and patient volume in Italian hospitals.

1993 • 16 citations

Selection for oesophagectomy and postoperative outcome in a defined population.

1993 • 14 citations

Care of cancer patients in a home-based hospice program: a comparison of oncologists and primary care physicians.

1992 • 14 citations

Physician‐dependent Prognostic Variables in the Management of Testicular Cancer

1988 • 12 citations

The value of guidelines in a breast screening service

1995 • 11 citations

Process and outcome of care for patients with ovarian cancer.

1985 • 11 citations

Quality of care in women with stage I cervical cancer.

1982 • 6 citations