Neue Versorgungsindikatoren geben Einblick in die Behandlungszeiträume von Kopf-Hals-Tumoren
摘要
Guidelines are developed to ensure that patients are treated to the most uniform and quality-assured standards possible. The quality indicators provided in the S3 guidelines of the German Guideline Program Oncology serve to check adherence to treatment recommendations. Within this program, guidelines and quality indicators have now been developed for over 30 types of cancer; however, they currently do not cover every disease or every treatment recommendation. Owing to the nationwide nature of data collection, cancer registries can evaluate adherence to quality indicators in all institutions providing cancer care. Moreover, in addition to assessing quality indicators, these unique data collections provide the opportunity to analyse further health care indicators, which may be developed by the registries themselves or in collaboration with external experts. The current study describes the development and application of two quality indicators for the time between diagnosis and surgery and the time between surgery and the end of the first curative treatment for head and neck cancer. The results reveal optimal care of patients with head and neck tumors.