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Video registration of trauma team performance in the emergency department: the results of a 2-year analysis in a Level 1 trauma center. J Trauma (2009) 0.92
The sexual health care needs after colorectal cancer: the view of patients, partners, and health care professionals. Support Care Cancer (2013) 0.91
Surgical mediastinal staging in daily practice. Lung Cancer (2005) 0.91
Lack of survival gain for elderly women with breast cancer. Oncologist (2011) 0.91
How breast cancer survivors cope with fear of recurrence: a focus group study. Support Care Cancer (2013) 0.91
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Four screening instruments for frailty in older patients with and without cancer: a diagnostic study. BMC Geriatr (2014) 0.90
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The WHOQOL-100 has good psychometric properties in breast cancer patients. J Clin Epidemiol (2008) 0.88
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Introduction of a breast cancer care programme including ultra short hospital stay in 4 early adopter centres: framework for an implementation study. BMC Cancer (2007) 0.86
Chemotherapy and cognitive complaints in women with breast cancer. Psychooncology (2012) 0.85
The accuracy of complications documented in a prospective complication registry. J Surg Res (2010) 0.85
Personality predicts perceived availability of social support and satisfaction with social support in women with early stage breast cancer. Support Care Cancer (2009) 0.85
Effect of bar-code-assisted medication administration on medication administration errors. Am J Health Syst Pharm (2013) 0.84
Validation, revision and extension of the Mantle Cell Lymphoma International Prognostic Index in a population-based setting. Haematologica (2010) 0.84
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Identification of drug-related problems by a clinical pharmacist in addition to computerized alerts. Int J Clin Pharm (2013) 0.84
Prevalence and incidence of acute and chronic comorbidity in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. Head Neck (2011) 0.82
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Combined anxiety and depressive symptoms before diagnosis of breast cancer. J Affect Disord (2011) 0.81
Development of the Psychosocial Distress Questionnaire-Breast Cancer (PDQ-BC): a breast cancer-specific screening instrument for psychosocial problems. Support Care Cancer (2010) 0.81
Trait anxiety determines depressive symptoms and fatigue in women with an abnormality in the breast. Br J Health Psychol (2008) 0.81
Trait anxiety predicts outcome 6 weeks after cholecystectomy. A prospective follow-up study. Ann Behav Med (2011) 0.81
Measuring the health-related quality of life and sexual functioning of patients with rectal cancer: does type of treatment matter? Int J Cancer (2013) 0.80
Pneumonectomy for bronchogenic carcinoma: analysis of factors predicting short- and long-term outcome. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg (2009) 0.80
Patients with prostate cancer continue to have excess mortality up to 15 years after diagnosis. BJU Int (2014) 0.79
Determinants of overall quality of life in women over the first year after surgery for early stage breast cancer. Qual Life Res (2009) 0.79
Increasing incidence and improved survival of cancer in children and young adults in Southern Netherlands, 1973-1999. Eur J Cancer (2005) 0.79
Quality of care indicators for muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Urol Int (2010) 0.79
Trait anxiety predicts unsuccessful surgery in gallstone disease. Psychosom Med (2010) 0.79
Diabetes mellitus type 2 and subsite-specific colorectal cancer risk in men and women: results from the Netherlands Cohort Study on diet and cancer. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol (2016) 0.79
Cancer or no cancer: the influence of trait anxiety and diagnosis on quality of life with breast cancer and benign disease: a prospective, longitudinal study. World J Surg (2013) 0.79
Clinical factors are not the best predictors of quality of sexual life and sexual functioning in women with early stage breast cancer. Psychooncology (2010) 0.78
Sigmoid cancer versus chronic diverticular disease: differentiating features at CT colonography. Radiology (2014) 0.78
Trait anxiety predicts disease-specific health status in early-stage breast cancer patients. Qual Life Res (2011) 0.78
Patient and procedure-related risk factors for adverse events after infrainguinal bypass. J Vasc Surg (2010) 0.77
Second operation is not related to psychological outcome in breast cancer patients. Int J Cancer (2010) 0.77
Multiple primary cancer survivors have poorer health status and well-being than single primary cancer survivors: a study from the population-based PROFILES registry. Psychooncology (2012) 0.77
The Psychosocial Distress Questionnaire-Breast Cancer (PDQ-BC) is a useful instrument to screen psychosocial problems. Support Care Cancer (2011) 0.76
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Reliability and Validity of the Psychosocial Distress Questionnaire-Breast Cancer. J Nurs Meas (2014) 0.76
No excess mortality in patients aged 50 years and older who received treatment for ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast. Int J Surg Oncol (2012) 0.76
The impact of disease progression on perceived health status and quality of life of long-term cancer survivors. J Cancer Surviv (2009) 0.75
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Segmental tibial fractures: an infrequent but demanding injury. Clin Orthop Relat Res (2013) 0.75
Incidence and type of complications in non-operated patients at a surgical ward. Patient Saf Surg (2010) 0.75
Re: Enhancing cancer registry data to promote rational health system design. J Natl Cancer Inst (2008) 0.75
Actual prognosis during follow-up of survivors of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the Netherlands. Haematologica (2013) 0.75
Variable impact of complications in general surgery: a prospective cohort study. Can J Surg (2012) 0.75
Diabetes alone should not be a reason for withholding adjuvant chemotherapy for stage III colon cancer. J Comorb (2011) 0.75
The beginning of the end of the lung cancer epidemic in Dutch women? Int J Cancer (2008) 0.75
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Clinical and pathological features of testicular diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: a heterogeneous disease. Leuk Lymphoma (2011) 0.75
Evaluating quality of life and response shift from a couple-based perspective: a study among patients with colorectal cancer and their partners. Qual Life Res (2014) 0.75
Rapid hemodynamic deterioration because of acute rupture of an aneurysm of the sinus of Valsalva: the importance of echocardiography in early diagnosis. J Am Soc Echocardiogr (2002) 0.75
The impact of diagnosis and trait anxiety on psychological distress in women with early stage breast cancer: a prospective study. Br J Health Psychol (2013) 0.75
Pre-hospital trauma care: a proposal for more efficient evaluation. Injury (2004) 0.75