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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464807703321

Titolo

Delivering high-quality cancer care : charting a new course for a system in crisis / / Committee on Improving the Quality of Cancer Care, addressing the challenges of an aging population, Board on Health Care Services ; Laura A. Levit [and three others], editors ; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : The National Academies Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-309-28661-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (413 p.)

Disciplina

616.994

Soggetti

Cancer - Patients - Care - United States

Cancer - Nursing - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter ""; ""Reviewers""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Boxes, Figures, and Tables""; ""Acronyms""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 The Current Cancer Care Landscape: An Imperative for Change""; ""3 Patient-Centered Communication and Shared Decision Making""; ""4 The Workforce Caring for Patients with Cancer""; ""5 The Evidence Base for High-Quality Cancer Care""; ""6 A Learning Health Care Information Technology System for Cancer""; ""7 Translating Evidence into Practice, Measuring Quality, and Improving Performance""

""8 Accessible and Affordable Cancer Care""""Appendix A: Glossary""; ""Appendix B: Committee Member and Staff Biographies""