Development of a Quality of Care Scorecard for Early Breast Cancer in an Insured Population

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 32nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, held May 18-21, 1996, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, "Background and Methods: Practice variation for the care of patients with breast cancer is well described. Detailed clinical data necessary to assess the appropriateness of diagnostic and therapeutic decisions are often lacking. Therefore, we linked claims from Blue Cross/Blue Shield (BCBS) with data from the statewide Virginia cancer registry (VCR) to determine the quality of care for women with newly diagnosed local/regional breast cancer. From 1989 to 1991, 737 women <64 years old with complete BCBS...

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