Ensuring quality cancer care

Ensuring quality cancer care through the oncology workforce.

A summary of the discussion at the Institute of Medicine National Cancer Policy Forum Workshop to examine oncology workforce shortages and describe current and potential solutions.

Ensuring Quality in Online Palliative Care Resources

Evidence and information is an integral part of the processes enabling clinical and service delivery within health. It is used by health professionals in clinical practice and in developing their professional knowledge, by policy makers in decision making, and is sought by health consumers to help them manage their health needs and assess their options. Increasingly, this evidence and informati...

In pursuit of long-term care: ensuring access, coverage, quality.

Introduction P roviding accessible, affordable, and high-quality long-term care services to an aging population presents a growing challenge to long-term care providers. As the oldest members of the baby boom generation approach retirement, federal and state policymakers are exploring policies to care for the increasing number of elderly and to finance expanding long-term care needs. Other conc...

Education: key to ensuring high-quality cancer care before, during, and after a nursing strike.

This feature provides a platform for oncology nurses to illustrate the many ways that leadership may be realized and professional practice may transform cancer care. Possible submissions include but are not limited to overviews of projects, accounts of the application of leadership principles or theories to practice, and interviews with nurse leaders. Descriptions of activities, projects, or ac...

Access to Quality Cancer Care: Evaluating and Ensuring Equitable Services, Quality of Life, and Survival Report Submitted by: