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From: Development and feasibility of a set of quality indicators relative to the timeliness and organisation of care for new breast cancer patients undergoing surgery

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Flow-chart of hospital and medical record numbers. * Reasons for drop-outs: heavy workload (n = 5), unavailable data (n = 3), no response (n = 2). ** Reasons for exclusions: non-infiltrating or non-inflammatory breast cancer (mainly carcinoma in situ) (n = 414, 28 %), prior treatment for breast cancer (n = 597, 40 %), neo-adjuvant chemotherapy (n = 310, 21 %), bilateral breast cancer (n = 125, 8 %), and unavailable records (n = 41, 3 %). *** NA: not included in analysis as wording ambiguous according to results of feasibility test.

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