ASCO-ESMO Consensus Statement on Quality Cancer Care
The ASCO-ESMO Consensus Statement on Quality Cancer Care is a joint document made up of 10 points outlining goals to
provide access to and continuity of quality cancer care worldwide.
Goals
- Setting the standard for
the essential components of quality cancer care for policy makers, physicians,
nurses and other health care personnel
- Reducing discrepancies in
patients' access to health care services, high quality cancer care, innovative
drugs, clinical trials, multidisciplinary care, pain management, palliative
care, information, access to medical records
- Improving patients' autonomy
Source
The ASCO-ESMO Task Force on Quality Cancer Care has
worked out the statement. Publication and
distribution
On paper
- Annals of Oncology 17: 1063–1064, 2006. doi:10.1093/annonc/mdl152
- Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 24, No 21 (July 20), 2006: pp. 3498-3499
On the Internet
- Freely
available from the ESMO Web site - click here
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