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Time to Treat: A System Redesign Focusing on Decreasing the Time from Suspicion of Lung Cancer to Diagnosis  Dorothy S. Lo, MD, Robert A. Zeldin, MD,

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1 Time to Treat: A System Redesign Focusing on Decreasing the Time from Suspicion of Lung Cancer to Diagnosis  Dorothy S. Lo, MD, Robert A. Zeldin, MD, Roland Skrastins, MD, Ian M. Fraser, MD, Harold Newman, MD, Alan Monavvari, MD, Yee C. Ung, MD, Harry Joseph, MBA, Teresa Downton, Larissa Maxwell, Jacinta Meharchand, MD  Journal of Thoracic Oncology  Volume 2, Issue 11, Pages (November 2007) DOI: /JTO.0b013e318158d4b6 Copyright © 2007 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Terms and Conditions

2 FIGURE 1 Pre- and postimplementation comparison of interval and overall wait times. Journal of Thoracic Oncology 2007 2, DOI: ( /JTO.0b013e318158d4b6) Copyright © 2007 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Terms and Conditions

3 FIGURE 2 Time for patients to receiving diagnosis from suspicious chest radiograph. Journal of Thoracic Oncology 2007 2, DOI: ( /JTO.0b013e318158d4b6) Copyright © 2007 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Terms and Conditions

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