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Ensuring Quality Cancer Care (Paperback, New)
Institute of Medicine and National Research Council, Commission on Life Sciences, Institute of Medicine, National Cancer Policy Board; Edited by Joseph V Simone, …
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We all want to believe that when people get cancer, they will
receive medical care of the highest quality. Even as new scientific
breakthroughs are announced, though, many cancer patients may be
getting the wrong care, too little care, or too much care, in the
form of unnecessary procedures. 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. What keeps people from
getting care? The book explains how lack of medical coverage,
social and economic status, patient beliefs, physician
decision-making, and other factors can stand between the patient
and the best possible care. The board explores how cancer care is
shaped by the current focus on evidence-based medicine, the
widespread adoption of managed care, where services are provided,
and who provides care. Specific shortfalls in the care of breast
and prostate cancer are identified. A status report on health
services research is included. Ensuring Quality Cancer Care offers
wide-ranging data and information in clear context. As the baby
boomers approach the years when most cancer occurs, this timely
volume will be of special interest to health policy makers, public
and private healthcare purchasers, medical professionals, patient
advocates, researchers, and people with cancer. Table of Contents
Front Matter Summary 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 Glossary Acronyms Index
Only more recently has it been realized that the intense effort to
care for and cure a child with cancer does not end with survival.
Continued surveillance and a variety of interventions may, in many
cases, be needed to identify and care for consequences of treatment
that can appear early or only after several decades and impair
survivors' health and quality of life. The more than two-thirds of
childhood cancer survivors who experience late effects-that is,
complications, disabilities, or adverse outcomes-as a result of
their disease, its treatment, or both, are the focus of this report
which outlines a comprehensive policy agenda that links improved
health care delivery and follow-up, investments in education and
training for health care providers, and expanded research to
improve the long-term outlook for this growing population now
exceeding 270,000 Americans. Table of Contents Front Matter Summary
1. Introduction 2. The Epidemiology of Childhood Cancer 3. The
Trajectory of Childhood Cancer Care 4. Late Effects of Childhood
Cancer 5. Delivering Survivorship Care 6. Assuring Appropriate
Educational Support Services 7. Employment, Insurance, and Economic
Issues 8. Research Issues 9. Findings and Recommendations
Shortly after 1998, leading members of Georgia's government,
medical community, and public-spirited citizenry began considering
ways in which some of Georgia's almost $5 billion, 25-year
settlement from the tobacco industry's Master Settlement Agreement
with the 50 states could be used to benefit Georgia residents.
Given tobacco's role in causing cancer, they decided to create an
entity and program with the mission of making Georgia a national
leader in cancer prevention, treatment, and research. This new
entity--called the Georgia Cancer Coalition, Inc. (GCC)-- and the
state of Georgia subsequently began implementing a far-reaching
state cancer initiative that includes five strategic goals: (1)
preventing cancer and detecting existing cancers earlier; (2)
improving access to quality care for all state residents with
cancer; (3) saving more lives in the future; (4) training future
cancer researchers and caregivers; and (5) turning the eradication
of cancer into economic growth for Georgia.
"Assessing the Quality of Cancer Care" identifies a set of measures
that could be used to gauge Georgia's progress in improving the
quality of its cancer services and in reducing cancer-related
morbidity and mortality.
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