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Quality Oncology Practice Initiative Turns Seven

North Shore Medical Center, Salem, MA; and Quality Oncology Practice Initiative Steering Committee, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Alexandria, VA

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It is fitting that the current issue of Journal of Oncology Practice highlights the ASCO Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI). Seven years ago, Joseph Simone, MD, then chair of the National Cancer Policy Board of the Institute of Medicine, submitted a modest proposal to ASCO. He suggested the funding of a feasibility study to determine if a small cadre of highly selected oncologists would be willing to voluntarily measure the quality of care they provide and share those results with one another and with their colleagues. The details of Simone's vision and the remarkable history of QOPI are summarized in . . . [Click for More]

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