Variation in the Quality of Head and Neck Cancer Care in the United States

William A Strober; Shaum Sridharan; Umamaheswar Duvvuri; John D Cramer

doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2018.3632

Variation in the Quality of Head and Neck Cancer Care in the United States

JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2019 Feb 1;145(2):188-191. doi: 10.1001/jamaoto.2018.3632.

Authors

William A Strober¹, Shaum Sridharan², Umamaheswar Duvvuri², John D Cramer^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ currently a medical student at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
² Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
³ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan.

Abstract

This evaluation of quality metrics uses data from the National Cancer Database to summarize hospital-level overall quality of care for patients with head and neck cancer in the United States.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Head and Neck Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Head and Neck Neoplasms / therapy*
Humans
Quality of Health Care*
United States