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Thierry Berghmans1, Yolande Lievens2, Matti Aapro3, Anne-Marie Baird4, Marc Beishon5, Fiorella Calabrese6, Csaba Dégi7, Roberto C Delgado Bolton8, Mina Gaga9, József Lövey10, Andrea Luciani11, Philippe Pereira12, Helmut Prosch13, Marika Saar14, Michael Shackcloth15, Geertje Tabak-Houwaard16, Alberto Costa17, Philip Poortmans18.
Abstract
European Cancer Organisation Essential Requirements for Quality Cancer Care (ERQCC) are written by experts representing all disciplines involved in cancer care in Europe. They give patients, health professionals, managers and policymakers a guide to essential care throughout the patient journey. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality and has a wide variation in treatment and outcomes in Europe. It is a major healthcare burden and has complex diagnosis and treatment challenges. Care must only be carried out in lung cancer units or centres that have a core multidisciplinary team (MDT) and an extended team of health professionals detailed here. Such units are far from universal in European countries. To meet European aspirations for comprehensive cancer control, healthcare organisations must consider the requirements in this paper, paying particular attention to multidisciplinarity and patient-centred pathways from diagnosis, to treatment, to survivorship.Entities:
Keywords: Audit; Cancer centre; Cancer unit; Care pathways; Essential requirements; Europe; Guidelines; Health inequalities; Healthcare system; Lung cancer; Multidisciplinary; Multidisciplinary team; Organisation of care; Patient information; Patient-centred; Quality; Quality assurance
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Year: 2020 PMID： 33227525 DOI： 10.1016/j.lungcan.2020.08.017
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Lung Cancer ISSN： 0169-5002 Impact factor: 5.705