Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
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Review
Identifying potential indicators of the quality of end-of-life cancer care from administrative data.
To explore potential indicators of the quality of end-of-life services for cancer patients that could be monitored using existing administrative data. ⋯ Several promising claims-based quality indicators were identified that, if found to be valid and reliable within data systems, could be useful in identifying health-care systems in need of improving end-of-life services.