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18.06.2019 | ASO Author Reflections
ASO Author Reflections: Better Understanding of What We Have Learned from Cancer Care Quality Metrics
verfasst von:
Lawrence N. Shulman, MD
Erschienen in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Sonderheft 3/2019
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Prior to 2000, there were very few metrics that analyzed the quality of cancer care in the USA. We assumed that the quality of cancer care delivered in the USA was excellent, but there were little data to support this. Recently, it has been shown that cancer outcomes in the USA are quite variable across hospital types, though the reasons for this are poorly understood.
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2 Eventually, we acknowledged that, without measurement, you could neither evaluate quality nor improve performance. In the early 2000s, the Commission on Cancer began to institute cancer care quality metrics derived from the National Cancer Data Base and return the results to all of its accredited cancer programs.
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