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ReviewCurrent hematologic malignancy reports2016

Assessing Quality of Care for the Myelodysplastic Syndromes.

Zachary A K Frosch, Gregory A Abel

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Review in Current hematologic malignancy reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Zachary A K FroschDepartment of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA.
Gregory A AbelDivision of Population Sciences and Center for Leukemia, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA. gregory_abel@dfci.harvard.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Measuring the quality of care for patients with chronic cancers is difficult, especially for heterogeneous malignancies such as the myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Recent work suggests that improvements may be needed in the quality of diagnostic, treatment, and end-of-life care for patients with these syndromes. Moreover, rigorous assessment of factors that are necessary to deliver high-quality care such as preferred method of decision-making and pre-treatment quality of life are often overlooked. Finally, a key component of quality care is that it is received equitably across different patient populations, yet several recent studies suggest that there are financial, educational, race-ethnic, and age-related barriers to equitable MDS care.

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Quality of Health CareHematinicsHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationHumansMyelodysplastic SyndromesPatient-Centered CareQuality of LifeHematinicsAccess and evaluationMyelodysplastic syndromesPatient-centered careQuality indicatorsQuality of health careQuality of life

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