title: Understanding the relationship between health care quality and the renal mass.
abstract: Quality is increasingly important to all stakeholders of the U.S. health care system. Endeavors to measure and improve quality have moved forward in cardiovascular disease, diabetes care, and surgical wound infections. However, in urology, such efforts have lagged. As a specialty, we are now faced with pressures, exerted primarily by payors, to roll out performance measures, or quality indicators, in the absence of science to support them. In this review, we discuss the broad concepts of health care quality and describe their relationships with small renal tumors.
authors: Department of Urology, Divisions of Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
authors: Seth A
authors: SA
authors: Strope
authors: J Stuart
authors: JS
authors: Wolf
authors: Khaled S
authors: KS
authors: Hafez
authors: Rodney L
authors: RL
authors: Dunn
authors: John M
authors: JM
authors: Hollingsworth
authors: Scott M
authors: SM
authors: Gilbert
authors: Brent K
authors: BK
authors: Hollenbeck
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods; D008495:Medical Oncology / Q000379:methods*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009399:Nephrons / Q000473:pathology; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care