Ensuring quality cancer care

by Hewitt, Maria Elizabeth Simone, Joseph V.

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"How close is American medicine to the ideal of quality cancer care for every person with cancer? Ensuring Quality Cancer Care provides a comprehensive picture of how cancer care is delivered in our nation, from early detection to end-of-life issues. The National Cancer Policy Board defines quality care and recommends how to monitor, measure, and extend quality care to all people with cancer. Approaches to accountability in health care are reviewed." "This volume will be of special interest to …

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Full title :Ensuring quality cancer care / Maria Hewitt and Joseph V. Simone, editors ; National Cancer Policy Board, Institute of Medicine and Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council.

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Publication Date:1999.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):National Academy Press
Place of Publication:Washington, D.C
Language:eng
Publication Date:1999.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (ix, 246 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:058515578X, 9780585155784, 0309173140, 9780309173148, 0309518792, 9780309518796
oclc:ocm44964494
LC Classification:RA645.C3
Dewey Decimal:362.1/96994/00973

1. Introduction -- 2. The Cancer Care "System" -- 3. Ensuring Access to Cancer Care -- 4. Defining and Assessing Quality Cancer Care -- 5. Health Care Delivery and Quality of Cancer Care -- 6. Cancer Care Quality Assurance -- 7. Health Services Research in Cancer Care -- 8. Findings and Recommendations.

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Cancer -- Patients Cancer -- Patients -- United States Cancer -- Traitement Cancer -- Traitement -- États-Unis Cancer -- Treatment Cancer -- Treatment -- United States Cancéreux -- Soins -- États-Unis Electronic books HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases Medical care -- Quality control Neoplasms -- therapy Quality Assurance, Health Care Soins médicaux -- Qualité United States