Florida Initiative for Quality Cancer Care: improvements in breast cancer quality indicators during a 3-year interval.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Florida Initiative for Quality Cancer Care (FIQCC), composed of 11 practice sites across Florida, conducted its initial evaluation of adherence to breast cancer quality of care indicators (QCI) in 2006, with feedback provided to encourage quality improvement efforts at participating sites. In this study, our objective was to reassess changes over time resulting from these efforts.

Study design

Quality care indicators were derived from the Quality Oncology Practice Initiative, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, the American College of Surgeons, and expert panel consensus. Medical records were reviewed for breast cancer patients first seen by medical oncologists in 2009 at the FIQCC sites, using the same performance indicators as in 2006. Statistical com

SUBMITTER: Laronga C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4505727 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature