title: Quality of care indicators in rectal cancer.
abstract: Quality of health care is a hot topic, especially with regard to cancer. Although rectal cancer is, in many aspects, a model oncologic entity, there seem to be substantial differences in quality of care between countries, hospitals and physicians. PROCARE, a Belgian multidisciplinary national project to improve outcome in all patients with rectum cancer, identified a set of quality of care indicators covering all aspects of the management of rectal cancer. This set should permit national and international benchmarking, i.e. comparing results from individual hospitals or teams with national and international performances with feedback to participating teams. Such comparison could indicate whether further improvement is possible and/or warranted.
authors: (1) Pathology, Erasme University Hospital (ULB), Bruxelles. pieter.demetter@erasme.ulb.ac.be
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Demetter
authors: W
authors: W
authors: Ceelen
authors: E
authors: E
authors: Danse
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Haustermans
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authors: Jouret-Mourin
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authors: Kartheuser
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authors: Laurent
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authors: Mollet
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authors: Nagy
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authors: Scalliet
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authors: Van Cutsem
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authors: Van Den Eynde
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authors: Van de Stadt
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authors: Van Eycken
authors: J L
authors: JL
authors: Van Laethem
authors: K
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authors: Vindevoghel
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authors: F
authors: Penninckx
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000628:therapy*; D019985:Benchmarking; D006801:Humans; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*