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Kerin B. Adelson, MD, on Improving Cancer Staging

2016 Quality Care Symposium

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Kerin B. Adelson, MD, of the Yale Cancer Center, discusses an electronic decision support tool to capture staging data. This information allows automated reports for clinical trial screening, outcomes analysis, quality comparisons, and reporting. (Abstract 151)



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