Quality of breast cancer care: perception versus practice.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Because insurers use performance and quality metrics to inform reimbursement, identifying remediable causes of poor-quality cancer care is imperative. We undertook this descriptive cohort study to assess key predictors of women's perceived quality of their breast cancer care and actual guideline-concordant quality of care received.

Patients and methods

We surveyed inner-city women with newly diagnosed and surgically treated early-stage breast cancer requiring adjuvant treatment who were enrolled onto a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of patient assistance to reduce disparities in care. We assessed women's perceived quality of care and perceived quality of the process of getting care, such as getting referrals, test results, and treatments; we abstracted records to

SUBMITTER: Bickell NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3383180 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature