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ASCO's Groundbreaking Study on Cancer Care Quality: NICCQ

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Joseph S. Bailes, MD

The results are in for ASCO's National Initiative on Cancer Care Quality (NICCQ). They are encouraging, and they also reveal some opportunities for improvement. Published in the February 1, 2006, issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology (pp 626-634), the study results show that patients with cancer receive higher-quality care than previous research indicated.

Most patients with breast or colorectal cancer in the five U.S. metropolitan regions studied received generally recommended care, based on expert-established quality-of-care measures. Women with breast cancer received a mean of 86% of recommended care, and men and women with colorectal cancer . . . [Click for More]

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