At the center of cancer care. For-profit outpatient centers playing bigger role in treatment, clinical trials
Saphir, A.
Modern Healthcare 29(22): 28-30
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0160-7480 PMID: 10537911 Document Number: 502680
New treatments and technological advances mean the vasty majority of cancer patients are receiving their care on an outpatient basis. Increasingly, for-profit cancer centers are providing that care. Although some hospitals have embraced the centers as partners, others see them as interlopers, drawing off lucrative business and threatening patients' continuity of care.
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