Published 5 May 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b1830
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b1830
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Audit shows quality of lung cancer treatment in UK lags behind other countries
Susan Mayor
1 London
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The quality of lung cancer treatment in the United Kingdom varies between different hospitals and lags behind that in other western European countries, according to an audit published this week.
The third National Lung Cancer Audit, published by the NHS Information Centre and the Royal College of Physicians, shows an overall improvement in the quality of care being given by hospitals in the UK compared with previous years (figure
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Tim Straughan, chief executive of the NHS Information Centre, said, "While there have been overall improvements in care since the previous audit in 2006, there’s still a wide variation between hospitals which cannot be explained on the basis of differing patient profiles alone."
The audit assesses the management of more than 26 000 patients with lung cancer
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