Breast Cancer Q A

Author : Great Britain. National Coordination Group for Surgeons working in Breast Cancer Screening
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781871997217
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quality assurance guidelines for surgeons in breast cancer screening written by Great Britain. National Coordination Group for Surgeons working in Breast Cancer Screening and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Didier Verhoeven
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192575813
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breast cancer: Global quality care written by Didier Verhoeven and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing or existing breast cancer centres strive to provide the highest quality care possible within their current financial and personnel resources. Although the basics in diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer are well known, providing, monitoring, and assessing the care offered can be challenging for most sites. Based on the work of the International Congress of Breast Disease Centres, this book provides a comprehensive overview of how to start or improve a breast unit wherever you live. Written by a multidisciplinary team of over 100 experts from 25 countries, it provides a practical guide for how to optimally organise high quality integrated breast cancer care, whilst taking into account the local economics and resources available to different countries. Each component of the care pathway, including imaging, surgery, systemic treatment, nursing, and genetic assessment, is discussed from a theoretical and practical aspect. The authors define targets to strive for, methods to assess care, and key recommendations for how to improve within existing limitations. Finally, the book looks beyond the breast care unit to consider accreditation and certification, emerging technologies, media, and the role of governments. This guide will be valuable for anyone working in the field of integrated breast cancer care, including established breast care experts, those new to the field, and policy makers interested in the social, financial, and political aspects of improving breast care quality.

Author : National Cancer Policy Board
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309518792
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ensuring Quality Cancer Care written by National Cancer Policy Board and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-08-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all want to believe that when people get cancer, they will receive medical care of the highest quality. Even as new scientific breakthroughs are announced, though, many cancer patients may be getting the wrong care, too little care, or too much care, in the form of unnecessary procedures. How close is American medicine to the ideal of quality cancer care for every person with cancer? Ensuring Quality Cancer Care provides a comprehensive picture of how cancer care is delivered in our nation, from early detection to end-of-life issues. The National Cancer Policy Board defines quality care and recommends how to monitor, measure, and extend quality care to all people with cancer. Approaches to accountability in health care are reviewed. What keeps people from getting care? The book explains how lack of medical coverage, social and economic status, patient beliefs, physician decision-making, and other factors can stand between the patient and the best possible care. The board explores how cancer care is shaped by the current focus on evidence-based medicine, the widespread adoption of managed care, where services are provided, and who provides care. Specific shortfalls in the care of breast and prostate cancer are identified. A status report on health services research is included. Ensuring Quality Cancer Care offers wide-ranging data and information in clear context. As the baby boomers approach the years when most cancer occurs, this timely volume will be of special interest to health policy makers, public and private healthcare purchasers, medical professionals, patient advocates, researchers, and people with cancer.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309165113
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Improving Breast Imaging Quality Standards written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mammography is an important tool for detecting breast cancer at an early stage. When coupled with appropriate treatment, early detection can reduce breast cancer mortality. At the request of Congress, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioned a study to examine the current practice of mammography and breast cancer detection, with a focus on the FDA's oversight via the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA), to identify areas in need of improvement. Enacted in 1993, MQSA provides a general framework for ensuring national quality standards in facilities performing screening mammography, requires that each mammography facility be accredited and certified, and mandates that facilities will undergo annual inspections. This book recommends strategies for achieving continued progress in assuring mammography quality, including changes to MQSA regulation, as well as approaches that do not fall within the purview of MQSA. Specifically, this book provides recommendations aimed at improving mammography interpretation; revising MQSA regulations, inspections, and enforcement; ensuring an adequate workforce for breast cancer screening and diagnosis; and improving breast imaging quality beyond mammography.

Author : Alan B. Hollingsworth, M.D.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476666105
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mammography and Early Breast Cancer Detection written by Alan B. Hollingsworth, M.D. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early detection of breast cancer is critical. Yet efforts to cut back on mammography or even stop screening altogether have been gaining ground in the medical community's decades-long debate over testing and treatment. It is not a purely scientific debate--back-room politics and hidden agendas have played as much a role as clinical data, leading to some surprising conclusions. Written by one of the first physicians in the country to specialize in breast cancer risk assessment, genetic testing and high-risk interventions, this book focuses on the screening controversy and explains the arguments used on both sides. The author covers the history of screening, from the first mobile unit on the streets of Manhattan to the cutting edge imaging technology of today.

Author : National Breast Screening Programme (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781871997484
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quality Assurance Guidelines for Nurses in Breast Cancer Screening written by National Breast Screening Programme (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : European Commission. Directorate-General for Health and Consumer Protection
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis written by European Commission. Directorate-General for Health and Consumer Protection and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breast cancer is the most frequent cause of cancer-related deaths in women in Europe, and demographic trends indicate a continuing increase in this substantial public health problem. Systematic early detection through screening, effective diagnostic pathways and optimal treatment have the ability to substantially lower current breast cancer mortality rates and reduce the burden of this disease in the population. This is the fourth edition of these guidelines which contains information on recommended standards and procedures for breast cancer screening and diagnostic services, including chapters on multi-disciplinary aspects of quality assurance, data collection and monitoring, effective communication of information, requirements of a specialist unit, and a certification protocol.

Author : International Atomic Energy Agency
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789201114105
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quality Assurance Programme for Digital Mammography written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual provides a harmonized approach to quality assurance (QA) in the emerging area of digital mammography. It outlines the principles of, and specific instructions that can be used for, a QA programme for the optimal detection of early stage breast cancer within a digital environment. Intended for use by Member States that are now using digital mammography or that are assessing the implications of using digital mammography, it addresses major areas such as considerations concerning the transition from screen film to digital mammography, basic principles of QA, clinical image quality, quality control tests for radiographers, and quality control tests for medical physicists, including dosimetry assessment. Instructional materials to supplement the knowledge of professionals already working in the field of diagnostic radiology, as well as quality control worksheets, are also provided.

Author : John Armstrong Muir Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781871997651
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book General Principles of Quality Assurance in Breast Cancer Screening written by John Armstrong Muir Gray and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reauthorization of the Mammography Quality Standards Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: