Developing national cancer survivorship standards to inform quality of care in the United States using a consensus approach.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To develop United States (US) standards for survivorship care that informs (1) essential health system policy and process components and (2) evaluation of the quality of survivorship care.

Methods

The National Cancer Institute and the Department of Veterans Affairs led a review to identify indicators of quality cancer survivorship care in the domains of health system policy, process, and evaluation/assessment. A series of three virtual consensus meetings with survivorship care and research experts and advocates was conducted to rate the importance of the indicators and refine the top indicators. The final set of standards was developed, including ten indicators in each domain.

Results

Prioritized items were survivor-focused, including processes to both assess

SUBMITTER: Mollica MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11324674 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature