Background. Further improvement of the internal quality assurance clinical practice is critical to achieve goals and objectives Federal project entitled “Battle with cancer”, which aimed at reduction in cancer mortality by 2024 185 cases per 100,000 population. Prostate (PCa) third leading cause among men Russia. For selection indicators (QIs) for assessment oncological care, including treatmen...

BACKGROUND: Advances in cancer treatment have not benefited all patients equally, underscoring the need for a personalised approach to care. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this article is outline key elements care, including delivery goal-directed self-management and support, care integration, focus on access equity, reduction cost promotion health literacy e-health literacy. DISCUSSION: Achievement req...

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published Ensuring Quality Cancer Care, an influential report that described an ideal cancer care system and issued ten recommendations to address pervasive gaps in the understanding and delivery of quality cancer care. Despite generating much fervor, the report's recommendations-including two recommendations related to quality measurement-remain largely...

Palliative cancer care is the integration into oncologic care of therapies that address the issues that cause physical and psychosocial suffering for the patient and family. Effective provision of palliative cancer care requires an interdisciplinary team that can provide care in all settings (home, inpatient, and outpatient). There is clear evidence for improved outcomes in multiple domains-sym...

PROBLEM ADDRESSED To improve integration of cancer care, Cancer Care Ontario-a provincial agency responsible for planning, advising on, implementing, and monitoring initiatives to improve cancer outcomes-proposed a primary care and cancer engagement strategy in its Ontario Cancer Plan 2008-2011. OBJECTIVE OF PROGRAM The strategy was designed to focus initially on improving screening for color...

BACKGROUND It is important to maintain high-quality cancer care while reducing spending. This requires an understanding of how stakeholders define "quality." The objective of this literature review was to understand the perceptions patients, physicians, and managed care professionals have about quality cancer care, especially chemotherapy. METHODS A computerized literature search was conducte...

Cancer survivorship is now recognized as a distinct phase of cancer care, but the process of delivering survivorship care continues to emerge. Nurses often play a pivotal role during the survivorship phase by identifying patient needs and making appropriate referrals to address the range of issues that may arise. Some nurses may also be directly involved in providing survivorship-focused clinic...

Cancer occurs due to the addition of mass in body cells that can spread and cause death. The problems arising from cancer are physical, psychological, spiritual problems. Spiritual intervention is essential valuable as one treatment efforts dealing with issues caused by cancer. However, there obstacles where nurses still need be exposed much information about intervention. purpose this study wa...