Findings that hospital factors are surrogate for disparities are misleading

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Quyen D Chu et al. J Clin Oncol. 2010.

. 2010 Feb 1;28(4):e56; author reply e57.

doi: 10.1200/JCO.2009.26.1107. Epub 2009 Dec 14.

No abstract available

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