Income level and regional policies, underlying factors associated with unwarranted variations in conservative breast cancer surgery in Spain

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Geographical variations in medical practice are expected to be small when the evidence about the effectiveness and safety of a particular technology is abundant. This would be the case of the prescription of conservative surgery in b...

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Main Authors: Peiró-Moreno Salvador, Abadía-Taira Begoña, García-Armesto Sandra, Ridao-López Manuel, Bernal-Delgado Enrique
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-04-01
Series:BMC Cancer
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/11/145