Effects of Lean Thinking and Emerging Technologies on Breast Cancer Patients' Therapeutic Process During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case-Control Matched Study.

Francesca Pellini, Giacomo Di Filippo, Sara Mirandola, Giulia Deguidi, Elisa Filippi, Giovanni Paolo Pollini

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Article in Frontiers in surgery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

A Systematic Review of Lean Implementation in Hospitals: Impact on Efficiency, Quality, Cost, and Satisfaction.International journal of health policy and management · 2025
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Breast Cancer Management in the Era of Covid-19; Key Issues, Contemporary Strategies, and Future Implications.Breast cancer (Dove Medical Press) · 2023
Review
The use of indocyanine green as the only tracer for the identification of the sentinel lymph node in breast cancer: safety and feasibility.Gland surgery · 2022
Article
Caregivers of Individuals with Cancer in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Phenomenological Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Francesca PelliniComplex Operative Unit of Breast Surgery, Breast Unit, Oncologic Surgery Department, AOUI, Ospedale Civile Maggiore, Verona, Italy.

Giacomo Di FilippoComplex Operative Unit of Breast Surgery, Breast Unit, Oncologic Surgery Department, AOUI, Ospedale Civile Maggiore, Verona, Italy.

Sara MirandolaComplex Operative Unit of Breast Surgery, Breast Unit, Oncologic Surgery Department, AOUI, Ospedale Civile Maggiore, Verona, Italy.

Giulia DeguidiComplex Operative Unit of Breast Surgery, Breast Unit, Oncologic Surgery Department, AOUI, Ospedale Civile Maggiore, Verona, Italy.

Elisa FilippiComplex Operative Unit of Breast Surgery, Breast Unit, Oncologic Surgery Department, AOUI, Ospedale Civile Maggiore, Verona, Italy.

Giovanni Paolo PolliniComplex Operative Unit of Breast Surgery, Breast Unit, Oncologic Surgery Department, AOUI, Ospedale Civile Maggiore, Verona, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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breast cancercoronavirus (2019-nCoV)COVID-19indocyanin greenlean managementpectoral nerve block

Identifiers

PMID33791333

DOI10.3389/fsurg.2021.582980

PMCPMC8006315

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