Friday again: Timing and referral patterns of acute radiotherapy in a tertiary supraregional care network
J Knoth, E Suvajac, G Altorjai, V Dick, D Kauer-Dorner, F Eckert, M Heilmann, H Herrmann, M Hudelist-Venz, S Konrad, V Potkrajcic, T Mrva-Ghukasyan, IM Simek, V Stanisav, A Sturdza, C Thiele, L Ulbrich, C Waldstein, A Zaharie, J Widder, MP Schmid · 2026
Read Friday again: Timing and referral patterns of acute radiotherapy in a tertiary supraregional care network by J Knoth, E Suvajac, G Altorjai, V Dick, D Kauer-Dorner, F Eckert, M Heilmann, H Herrmann, M Hudelist-Venz, S Konrad, V Potkrajcic, T Mrva-Ghukasyan, IM Simek, V Stanisav, A Sturdza, C Thiele, L Ulbrich, C Waldstein, A Zaharie, J Widder, MP Schmid (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13602214.txt.
Description
A team at a large care network read the timing of urgent radiotherapy and the Friday effect in its name. Their study deals with acute radiotherapy for tumor driven crises. Delays can creep in both before and after a case is sent to radiation care. They read charts of all such urgent cases at their ward from two thousand nine to twenty twenty-four. Gaps from first signs to first visit, and from visit to beam start, were the main reads.
Send paths and the day of the week split were also weighed. The ward sits in a supraregional net, so its flow speaks for a wide area. Readers who run cancer crisis care learn where days are lost and if the week end plays a role.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | J Knoth, E Suvajac, G Altorjai, V Dick, D Kauer-Dorner, F Eckert, M Heilmann, H Herrmann, M Hudelist-Venz, S Konrad, V Potkrajcic, T Mrva-Ghukasyan, IM Simek, V Stanisav, A Sturdza, C Thiele, L Ulbrich, C Waldstein, A Zaharie, J Widder, MP Schmid |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 25 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |