Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care: Charting a New Course for a System in Crisis

by Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Care Services, Committee on Improving the Quality of Cancer Care: Addressing the Challenges of an Aging Population

In the United States, approximately 14 million people have had cancer and more than 1.6 million new cases are diagnosed each year. However, more than a decade after the Institute of Medicine (IOM) first studied the quality of cancer care, the barriers to achieving excellent care for all cancer patients remain daunting. Care often is not patient-centered, many patients do not receive palliative care to manage their symptoms and side effects from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309286603
• ISBN13: 9780309286602
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"