In this issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America, Guest Editor Clifford Ko, MD has assembled the top experts concerning Outcomes Research in Oncology. Topics in this issue will include: Currently Available Quality Initiatives in Surgical Oncology; Variation in Mortality After High Risk Cancer Surgery: Failure to Rescue; Readmission as a Quality Measure Following High Risk Cancer Surgery; Randomized Controlled Trials in Surgical Oncology: Where Do We Stand?; Lymph Node Staging in GI Malignancies; Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Cancer Care; Patient Safety in Surgical Oncology: Perspective from the Operating Room; Value Based Health Care: A Surgical Oncologist Perspective; Monitoring the Delivery of Cancer Care: Commission on Cancer and National Cancer Data Base; Prediction Tools in Surgical Oncology; Collaboration With the Community Cancer Center: Benefit for All; and Evaluating the Appropriateness of Cancer Care in the United States.
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Contributors - p. 3 4. Table of Contents - p. 4 5. Forthcoming Issues - p. 5 6. Foreword - p. 6 7. Outcomes Research in Surgical Oncology - p. 7 8. Currently Available Quality Improvement Initiatives in Surgical Oncology - p. 8 9. Monitoring the Delivery of Cancer Care - p. 13 10. Variation in Mortality After High-Risk Cancer Surgery - p. 19 11. Unexpected Readmissions After Major Cancer Surgery - p. 23 12. Importance of and Adherence to Lymph Node Staging Standards in Gastrointestinal Cancer - p. 28 13. Racial Differences and Disparities in Cancer Care and Outcomes - p. 34 14. Prediction Tools in Surgical Oncology - p. 47 15. Randomized Controlled Trials in Surgical Oncology: - p. 52 16. Patient Safety in Surgical Oncology - p. 61 17. Appropriate Use of Surgical Procedures for Patients with Cancer - p. 68 18. Collaboration with the Community Cancer Center - p. 73 19. Value-Based Health Care - p. 78 20. Index - p. 84
In this issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America, Guest Editor Clifford Ko, MD has assembled the top experts concerning Outcomes Research in Oncology. Topics in this issue will include: Currently Available Quality Initiatives in Surgical Oncology; Variation in Mortality After High Risk Cancer Surgery: Failure to Rescue; Readmission as a Quality Measure Following High Risk Cancer Surgery; Randomized Controlled Trials in Surgical Oncology: Where Do We Stand?; Lymph Node Staging in GI Malignancies; Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Cancer Care; Patient Safety in Surgical Oncology: Perspective from the Operating Room; Value Based Health Care: A Surgical Oncologist Perspective; Monitoring the Delivery of Cancer Care: Commission on Cancer and National Cancer Data Base; Prediction Tools in Surgical Oncology; Collaboration With the Community Cancer Center: Benefit for All; and Evaluating the Appropriateness of Cancer Care in the United States.
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Contributors - p. 3 4. Table of Contents - p. 4 5. Forthcoming Issues - p. 5 6. Foreword - p. 6 7. Outcomes Research in Surgical Oncology - p. 7 8. Currently Available Quality Improvement Initiatives in Surgical Oncology - p. 8 9. Monitoring the Delivery of Cancer Care - p. 13 10. Variation in Mortality After High-Risk Cancer Surgery - p. 19 11. Unexpected Readmissions After Major Cancer Surgery - p. 23 12. Importance of and Adherence to Lymph Node Staging Standards in Gastrointestinal Cancer - p. 28 13. Racial Differences and Disparities in Cancer Care and Outcomes - p. 34 14. Prediction Tools in Surgical Oncology - p. 47 15. Randomized Controlled Trials in Surgical Oncology: - p. 52 16. Patient Safety in Surgical Oncology - p. 61 17. Appropriate Use of Surgical Procedures for Patients with Cancer - p. 68 18. Collaboration with the Community Cancer Center - p. 73 19. Value-Based Health Care - p. 78 20. Index - p. 84
