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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.

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.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Hewitt, Maria Elizabeth.
  • Institute of Medicine (U.S.)
  • National Cancer Policy Board (U.S.)
  • National Research Council (U.S.). Commission on Life Sciences.
  • Simone, Joseph V.
Description
ix, 246 p. : ill., map; 28 cm.
Summary
  • "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."--BOOK JACKET.
  • "This volume will be of special interest to health policy makers, public and private healthcare purchasers, medical professionals, patient advocates, researchers, and people with cancer."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
0309064805 (pbk.)
LCCN
99006488
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries