Guideline-based quality assurance: a conceptual framework for the definition of key elements

• Main Authors: Elena Parmelli (Author), Miranda Langendam (Author), Thomas Piggott (Author), Jan Adolfsson (Author), Elie A. Akl (Author), David Armstrong (Author), Jeffrey Braithwaite (Author), Romina Brignardello-Petersen (Author), Markus Follmann (Author), Zbigniew Leś (Author), Joerg J. Meerpohl (Author), Luciana Neamtiu (Author), Amir Qaseem (Author), Paolo Giorgi Rossi (Author), Zuleika Saz-Parkinson (Author), Philip J. van der Wees (Author), Holger J. Schünemann (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background In 2017, the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) started developing a methodological framework for a guideline-based quality assurance (QA) scheme to improve cancer quality of care. During the first phase of the work, inconsistency emerged about the use of term...