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Toward a Consensus on Centralization in Surgery
Vonlanthen, R; Lodge, P; Barkun, J; Farges, O; Rogiers, X; Soreide, K; Kehlet, H; Reynolds, J; Käser, S; Naredi, P; Borel-Rinkes, I; Biondo, SObjectives: To critically assess centralization policies for highly specialized surgeries in Europe and North America and propose recommendations. Background/methods: Most countries are increasingly forced to maintain quality medicine at a reasonable cost. An all-inclusive perspective, including health care providers, payers, society as a whole and patients, has ubiquitously failed, arguably for different reaso...
ECCO Essential Requirements for Quality Cancer Care: Colorectal Cancer. A criti...
Beets, G; Sebag-Montefiore, D; Andritsch, E; Arnold, D; Beishon, M; Crul, M; Dekker, JW; Delgado-Bolton, R; Fléjou, JF; Grisold, W; Henning, G; Laghi, ABackground ECCO essential requirements for quality cancer care (ERQCC) are checklists and explanations of organisation and actions that are necessary to give high-quality care to patients who have a specific tumour type. They are written by European experts representing all disciplines involved in cancer care. ERQCC papers give oncology teams, patients, policymakers and managers an overview of the elements need...