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Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants
Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants
Pages 123-130
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What Do We Want? Tools for Quality Monitoring and Health Services Research Tom Smith SESSION TWO: USING CANCER REGISTRIES TO MONITOR THE QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE Population-based cancer registries are the foundation of surveillance and cancer control programs.
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program has been used to answer important health services research questions. Brief presentations describing of some of the technical, methodological, and legal issues raised in using registry data to monitor healthcare quality will be followed by a discussion that will focus on the merits and limitations of wider applications of quality assessment using cancer registries.
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The National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) , maintained by the American College of Surgeons and American Cancer Society holds promise for assessing progress toward quality improvement because it includes information on the care experience of nearly 60 percent of individuals diagnosed with cancer.
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9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast Summary of Day One Vivien Chen Tom Smith SESSION FOUR: DATA FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH The National Center for Health Statistics, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, and the American Cancer Society are among the sponsors of large population-based surveys, providing a wealth of opportunities for health service researchers.
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Chief, Health Services and Economics Branch Applied Research Program Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences National Cancer Institute Jeffrey Crane, M.D. Staff physician Raleigh Hematology Oncology Clinic Linda Harlan, Ph.D.
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Operations Research Analyst Health Services and Economics Branch Applied Research Program Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences National Cancer Institute Tom Smith, M.D., F.A.C.P. Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Administration Medical College of Virginia Virginia Commonwealth University Tom Tucker, M.P.H.
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Director of Surveillance Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance American Cancer Society Roger Winn M.D. Chief, Section of Community Oncology Department of Internal Medical Specialties Division of Medicine U.T.
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