Quality of care for testis cancer.
This article explores the delivery of high quality care in patients with testicular cancer. Critical issues relate to an individualized, risk-stratified, and multidisciplinary approach to patient care at centers of excellence and subsequent close patient follow-up. The necessary integration of multiple therapeutic modalities makes testis cancer outcomes highly susceptible to variations in quality of care, which deserves further investigation in well designed population-based studies.
Dahm
Philipp
P
Department of Urology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA. p.dahm@urology.ufl.edu
Rosser
Charles J
CJ
McKiernan
James M
JM
D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008495:Medical Oncology / Q000379:methods*; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009367:Neoplasm Staging / Q000379:methods; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011379:Prognosis; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012306:Risk; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*