title: Quality and Safety in Health Care, Part IV: Quality and Cancer Care.
abstract: The 1999 Institute of Medicine report Ensuring Quality Cancer Care discussed the difference between the actual cancer care received in the United States and the care that the patients should get, as well as some points to consider in delivering optimum care. In 2012, a follow-up review article in the journal Cancer entitled "Ensuring quality cancer care" indicated that there had been some interval progress, but more are needed to be done. The 2013 Institute of Medicine report Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care: Charting a New Course for a System in Crisis indicated that there are continuing major problems with cancer care and that they advocated a national system of quality reporting and a major information technology system to capture and help assess the data.
authors.affiliation: From the Advanced Radiology Services and the Division of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, College of Human Services, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI.
authors.forename: Jay A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Harolds
mesh_terms: D000847:Annual Reports as Topic; D006801:Humans; D015969:National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States