Background: ECCO essential requirements for quality cancer care (ERQCC) are checklists and explanations of organisation and actions that are necessary to give high-quality care to patients who have a specific type of cancer. They are written by European experts representing all disciplines involved in cancer care. ERQCC papers give oncology teams, patients, policymakers and managers an overview of the elements needed in any healthcare system to provide high quality of care throughout the patient journey. References are made to clinical guidelines and other resources where appropriate, and the focus is on care in Europe. Oesophageal and gastric: essential requirements for quality care: • Oesophageal and gastric (OG) cancers are a challenging tumour group with a poor prognosis and wide variation in outcomes among European countries. Increasing numbers of older people are contracting the diseases, and treatments and care pathways are becoming more complex in both curative and palliative settings.• High-quality care can only be a carried out in specialised OG cancer units or centres which have both a core multidisciplinary team and an extended team of allied professionals, and which are subject to quality and audit procedures. Such units or centres are far from universal in all European countries.• It is essential that, to meet European aspirations for comprehensive cancer control, healthcare organisations implement the essential requirements in this paper, paying particular attention to multidisciplinarity and patient-centred pathways from diagnosis, to treatment, to survivorship. Conclusion: Taken together, the information presented in this paper provides a comprehensive description of the essential requirements for establishing a high-quality OG cancer service. The ERQCC expert group is aware that it is not possible to propose a ‘one size fits all’ system for all countries, but urges that access to multidisciplinary units or centres must be guaranteed for all those with OG cancer.

Allum, W., Lordick, F., Alsina, M., Andritsch, E., Ba-Ssalamah, A., Beishon, M., et al. (2018). ECCO essential requirements for quality cancer care: Oesophageal and gastric cancer. CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ONCOLOGY HEMATOLOGY, 122, 179-193 [10.1016/j.critrevonc.2017.12.019].

ECCO essential requirements for quality cancer care: Oesophageal and gastric cancer

Braga M.;
2018

Abstract

Background: ECCO essential requirements for quality cancer care (ERQCC) are checklists and explanations of organisation and actions that are necessary to give high-quality care to patients who have a specific type of cancer. They are written by European experts representing all disciplines involved in cancer care. ERQCC papers give oncology teams, patients, policymakers and managers an overview of the elements needed in any healthcare system to provide high quality of care throughout the patient journey. References are made to clinical guidelines and other resources where appropriate, and the focus is on care in Europe. Oesophageal and gastric: essential requirements for quality care: • Oesophageal and gastric (OG) cancers are a challenging tumour group with a poor prognosis and wide variation in outcomes among European countries. Increasing numbers of older people are contracting the diseases, and treatments and care pathways are becoming more complex in both curative and palliative settings.• High-quality care can only be a carried out in specialised OG cancer units or centres which have both a core multidisciplinary team and an extended team of allied professionals, and which are subject to quality and audit procedures. Such units or centres are far from universal in all European countries.• It is essential that, to meet European aspirations for comprehensive cancer control, healthcare organisations implement the essential requirements in this paper, paying particular attention to multidisciplinarity and patient-centred pathways from diagnosis, to treatment, to survivorship. Conclusion: Taken together, the information presented in this paper provides a comprehensive description of the essential requirements for establishing a high-quality OG cancer service. The ERQCC expert group is aware that it is not possible to propose a ‘one size fits all’ system for all countries, but urges that access to multidisciplinary units or centres must be guaranteed for all those with OG cancer.
Articolo in rivista - Review Essay
Audit; Cancer centre; Cancer unit; Care pathways; Essential requirements; Europe; Gastric cancer; Guidelines; Health inequalities; Healthcare system; Multidisciplinary; Multidisciplinary team; Oesophageal cancer; Oesophageal-gastric cancer; Organisation of care; Patient information; Patient-centred; Quality; Quality assurance; Stomach cancer;
Audit, cancer centre, Cancer unit, Care pathways, Essential requirements, Europe, Gastric cancer, Multidisciplinary team, Oesophageal cancer, Oesophageal-gastric cancer, Organisation of care, Patient information, Patient-centred, Quality, Quality assurance, Stomach cancer
English
2018
122
179
193
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Allum, W., Lordick, F., Alsina, M., Andritsch, E., Ba-Ssalamah, A., Beishon, M., et al. (2018). ECCO essential requirements for quality cancer care: Oesophageal and gastric cancer. CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ONCOLOGY HEMATOLOGY, 122, 179-193 [10.1016/j.critrevonc.2017.12.019].
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