Free-standing cancer centers: rationale for improving cancer care delivery. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Free-standing cancer centers (FSCC) represent a growing trend in cancer care delivery within community practice. The critical components to FSCC are multidisciplinary cancer care, a complete menu of direct care and support services, a commitment to clinical trials and clinical investigation, and a comprehensive program for quality assurance. The advantages of FSCC to the community, to hospital programs, to the practicing surgical, medical, and radiation oncologists, and to the third-party carriers, including health maintenance organizations, are detailed. The development of an FSCC depends on the resolution of issues of (a) competition (between hospitals, hospitals and physicians, therapeutic disciplines, regional comprehensive cancer centers and FSCCs) and (b) concerns about conflict of interest. The ideal model of FSCC may well be represented by the joint venture of community hospital(s) and the community oncologists.

publication date

  • October 1, 1989

Research

keywords

  • Ambulatory Care Facilities
  • Cancer Care Facilities
  • Hospitals, Special
  • Models, Theoretical

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0024430620

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1097/00000421-198910000-00008

PubMed ID

  • 2801600

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 12

issue

  • 5