[Abstract e19181] What Constitutes High-Quality NSCLC Care? Overarching Quality Considerations for Improving NSCLC Care at US Cancer Centers

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Presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2020 (#ASCO20) Virtual Scientific Program, May 29 to May 31, 2020.

Authors

Mark A. Socinski, Leigh Boehmer; AdventHealth Cancer Institute, Orlando, FL; Association of Community Cancer Centers, Rockville, MD

While clinical guidelines for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) provide recommendations on specific individual components of care and advocate multidisciplinary collaboration, guidance on multidisciplinary care spanning the complete patient journey is lacking. Quality-focused recommendations for the multidisciplinary team, along with selected clinical criteria for ideal NSCLC care, were compiled, and a new set of metrics encompassing the entire care continuum was proposed. These metrics were used to set a new benchmark for ideal NSCLC care through the Association of Community Cancer Centers’ (ACCC) national quality care initiative for patients with advanced (stage III/IV) NSCLC.