Development of Indicators to Assess Quality of Care for Prostate Cancer

Abstract

Background: The development, monitoring, and reporting of indicator measures that describe standard of care provide the gold standard for assessing quality of care and patient outcomes. Although indicator measures have been reported, little evidence of their use in measuring and benchmarking performance is available. A standard set, defining numerator, denominator, and risk adjustments, will enable global benchmarking of quality of care. Objective: To develop a set of indicators to enable assessment and reporting of quality of care for men with localised prostate cancer (PCa). Design, setting, and participants: Candidate indicators were identified from the literature. An international panel ..