Classical and disease-specific quality indicators in glioma surgery-Development of a quality checklist to improve treatment quality in glioma patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a pressing demand for more accurate, disease-specific quality measures in the field of neurosurgery. Aiming at most adequately measuring and reflecting the quality of glioma therapy, we developed a novel quality indicator bundle in form of a checklist for all patients that are treated operatively for glioma.

Methods

On the basis of possible glioma-specific quality indicators retrieved from the literature and quality guidelines, a multidisciplinary team developed a checklist containing 13 patient-need-specific outcome measures. Subsequently, the checklist was prospectively applied to a total of 78 patients compared with a control group consisting of 322 patients. A score was generated based on the maximum of quality measures achieved.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Menke C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8789264 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature