Research Catalog

Title

Quality of care for oncologic conditions and HIV : a review of the literature and quality indicators / Steven M. Asch [and others], editors.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : RAND Health, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Asch, Steven M.
• RAND Health.
• United States. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Description

xii, 281 pages; 28 cm

Summary

This report is one of five volumes providing detailed information on the QA Tools, RAND's comprehensive, clinically based system for assessing quality of care for children and adults. The QA Tools indicators encompass screening, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up in 46 clinical areas and cover a variety of modes of providing care, including history, physical examination, laboratory study, medication, and other interventions and contacts. Development of each indicator was based on the ratings of a panel of experts in the relevant fields and on a focused review of the scientific literature, which is clearly documented for each clinical condition. This volume focuses on indicators for care of oncologic conditions and HIV. Each chapter summarizes the results of the literature review for a particular condition, provides RAND staff's recommended indicators based on thatreview, and notes the level of scientific evidence supporting each indicator along with the relevant citations. In addition, this work details the process by which the expert panel evaluated the indicators and the final disposition of each indicator. Clinical conditions covered in this volume are: Breast cancer, cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, HIV, lung cancer, prostate cancer, skin cancer, cancer pain and palliation. Other RAND Health titles on the QA Tools system focus on indicators for care of children and adolescents, general medical conditions, cardiopulmonary conditions, and women.

Series Statement

"MR-1281-AHRQ"

Uniform Title

MR (Rand Corporation) ; 1281.

Alternative Title

Oncologic conditions and HIV

Subject

• Cancer > Treatment > Quality control. > United States
• AIDS (Disease) > Treatment > Quality control. > United States
• Medical care > United States > Evaluation
• Medical care > Quality control
• HIV Infections > therapy
• Neoplasms > therapy
• Quality of Health Care > standards
• Quality Assurance, Health Care
• Quality Indicators, Health Care
• MEDICAL > Health Policy
• Medical care > Quality control
• Medical care > Evaluation
• United States

Genre/Form

Review

Note

• "MR-1281-AHRQ" -- back cover.
• "Supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Preface -- Contents -- Tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Breast cancer screening -- 2. Breast cancer diagnosis and treatment -- 3. Cervical cancer screening -- 4. Colorectal cancer screening -- 5. Colorectal cancer treatment -- 6. HIV disease -- 7. Lung cancer -- 8. Prostate cancer screening -- 9. Prostate cancer treatment -- 10. Skin cancer screening -- 11. Cancer pain and palliation -- Appendix A: Panel rating sheets by condition -- Appendix B: Crosswalk table of original and final indicators.

ISBN

• 9780833029201
• 0833029207

LCCN

00712745

OCLC

• ocm48177441
• 48177441
• SCSB-1144483

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library