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Defining Quality: QOPI Is a Start

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Douglas W. Blayney, MD

The second round of data collection for ASCO's Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI) is underway this month. By now, QOPI should be a familiar concept, as the JOP has featured it on several occasions. The results of the pilot round of quality measures were published in the JCO in September 2005 (Neuss MN. J Clin Oncol 23:6233-6239, 2005); and additionally, QOPI was discussed at the 2005 and 2006 ASCO Annual Meeting Education Sessions.

QOPI measures processes of care—one of the three components of quality, along with environment of care and outcomes of care (Donabedian A. JAMA . . . [Click for More]

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