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Cancer patients experience myriad quality of care issues in the emergency department (ED) and in other healthcare settings, leading to diminished quality of life and higher costs of care. Healthcare experts have identified routine measurement and public reporting of the outcomes, processes, and structures of care as an important policy lever to improve quality of care and increase provider accountability. Yet, quality measure development for oncologic emergency medicine has lagged behind other conditions and care delivery settings for more than a decade, leaving ED-based oncology care largely absent from national performance measurement. The situation remains unchanged since this book’s initial publication. To address this gap, we continue to advocate for a national quality reporting program for cancer care, in harmony with recommendations from the National Academy of Medicine (neé Institute of Medicine). With formal national leadership, adequate funding, multi-stakeholder collaboration, and a robust and transparent health information technology infrastructure, this program could do much to increase the transparency and quality of oncologic emergency medicine across the nation.

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