Development of indicators for patient-centred cancer care
Open Access
- 23 April 2009
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Supportive Care in Cancer
- Vol. 18 (1), 121-130
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-009-0638-y
Abstract
Assessment of current practice with a valid set of indicators is the key to successfully improving the quality of patient-centred care. For improvement purposes, we developed indicators of patient-centred cancer care and tested them on a population of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).Keywords
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