Purpose: To explore potential indicators of the quality of end-of-life services for cancer
patients that could be monitored using existing administrative data. Methods: Quality …

Objective. To evaluate measures that could use existing administrative data to assess the
intensity of end-of-life cancer care. Methods. Benchmarking standards and statistical …

Context: Cancer is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the USA and despite many
recent advances in detection and treatment, over half a million cancer patients in this country …

Patients with advanced cancer often do not receive high-quality pain and symptom
management or support with coordination of care, communication, and decision making …

Background: There has been an increase in observational studies using health
administrative data to examine the nature, quality, and costs of care at life's end, particularly …

Cancer is projected to cause more than 570,000 deaths in the United States in 2005. 1 As
patients with cancer approach death, the issues they face are often similar regardless of the …

This study measures the proportion of cancer patients in Ontario, Canada, with intensive
care unit (ICU) admissions, emergency room (ER) visits, or chemotherapy in the last two …

Importance Improving the quality of cancer care is an international priority. Population-based
quality indicators (QIs) are key to this process yet remain almost exclusively used for …

BACKGROUND Quality indicators (QIs) are tools designed to measure and improve quality
of care. The objective of this study was to assess stakeholder acceptability of QIs of end‐of …

Background Quality of end-of-life care received by cancer patients has never been explored
in an entire Asian country for all ages and cancer groups. Patients and methods …