ECCO Essential Requirements for Quality Cancer Care: Primary care

Ian Banks; David Weller; Mehmet Ungan; Peter Selby; Matti Aapro; Marc Beishon; Marije Bolt; Fiona Bonanno; Claire Champeix; Csaba Dégi; Lisa Jelf Eneqvist; Joanna Kazmierska; Agnieszka Kolacinska; Simon Malas; Sébastien Moine; Danica Rotar Pavlic; Richard Price; Fiona Walter; Lynda Wyld

doi:10.1016/j.critrevonc.2019.07.007

ECCO Essential Requirements for Quality Cancer Care: Primary care

Crit Rev Oncol Hematol. 2019 Oct:142:187-199. doi: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2019.07.007. Epub 2019 Jul 17.

Authors

Ian Banks¹, David Weller², Mehmet Ungan³, Peter Selby⁴, Matti Aapro⁵, Marc Beishon⁶, Marije Bolt⁷, Fiona Bonanno⁸, Claire Champeix⁹, Csaba Dégi¹⁰, Lisa Jelf Eneqvist¹¹, Joanna Kazmierska¹², Agnieszka Kolacinska¹³, Simon Malas¹⁴, Sébastien Moine¹⁵, Danica Rotar Pavlic¹⁶, Richard Price¹⁷, Fiona Walter¹⁸, Lynda Wyld¹⁹

Affiliations

¹ European Cancer Organisation Patient Advisory Committee (ECCO PAC); European Men's Health Forum.
² World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA Europe); Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
³ World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA Europe); Department of Family Medicine, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
⁴ European Cancer Concord (ECC); Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, Leeds, United Kingdom.
⁵ European Cancer Organisation (ECCO); Genolier Cancer Centre, Clinique de Genolier, Genolier, Switzerland.
⁶ Cancer World, European School of Oncology (ESO), Milan, Italy. Electronic address: marcbeishon@icloud.com.
⁷ Council of Occupational Therapists for European Countries (COTEC).
⁸ European Society of Oncology Pharmacy (ESOP); Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Centre, Malta.
⁹ Eurocarers.
¹⁰ International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS); Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
¹¹ European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS); Regional Cancercenter Stockholm-Gotland, Sweden.
¹² European Society of Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO); Radiotherapy Department II, Greater Poland Cancer Center, Poznan, Poland.
¹³ European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO); Department of Head and Neck Cancer Surgery and Surgical Oncology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
¹⁴ Association of European Cancer Leagues (ECL); Oncology Clinic, Limassol General Hospital, Limassol, Cyprus.
¹⁵ European Association of Palliative Care (EAPC); Education and Health Practices Laboratory, University of Paris, France.
¹⁶ European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC).
¹⁷ European Cancer Organisation (ECCO).
¹⁸ Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
¹⁹ European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists (EUSOMA); Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.

PMID: 31445441
DOI: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2019.07.007

Abstract

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 cancer patients. They are written by European experts representing all disciplines involved in cancer care. This paper concerns the integration of primary care into care for all cancers in Europe. Primary care integration.

Publication types

Practice Guideline

MeSH terms

Europe
Humans
Medical Oncology
Neoplasms / therapy*
Primary Health Care*
Quality of Health Care*
Societies, Medical*