Oncology Health Services Library
Reading portfolio · 19 titles · 1997-2022
Oncology Health Services
Books and reports for students, researchers and managers who run cancer services: from national radiotherapy planning and the standard of cancer care to the flow science, informatics and causal methods that the Oncology Health Services chapters draw on.
Selection criteria. Priority went to reports and texts that define the quality standard for cancer care (National Academies, WHO, IAEA, World Bank), reference works in radiotherapy quality and safety and in psycho-oncology, and the operations and methods texts cited in the Oncology Health Services chapters. Titles already held in the site’s Hospital Operations & Design, Quality, Health Policy, Research Methods and AI libraries are not repeated here. Several IAEA, WHO and World Bank titles are free to download from the publisher.
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Cancer Care Systems, Policy and Service Planning
Reports and frameworks that define what a high-quality cancer care system is, how countries set priorities, and how cancer centres and radiotherapy services are planned and sized.
01Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care
Charting a New Course for a System in Crisis
- Publisher
- National Academies Press
- Edition
- 2013 (pub. Dec 2013)
- ISBN-13
- 9780309286602
The reference framework for cancer care quality: engaged patients, a coordinated workforce, evidence-based care, learning health IT, quality measurement and affordable access. Underpins the KPI and economics chapters of this subtopic.
Table of Contents11 entries
- Summary
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Current Cancer Care Landscape: An Imperative for Change
- 3 Patient-Centered Communication and Shared Decision Making
- 4 The Workforce Caring for Patients with Cancer
- 5 The Evidence Base for High-Quality Cancer Care
- 6 A Learning Health Care Information Technology System for Cancer
- 7 Translating Evidence into Practice, Measuring Quality, and Improving Performance
- 8 Accessible and Affordable Cancer Care
- Appendix A: Glossary
- Appendix B: Committee Member and Staff Biographies
02Cancer ≈ contents
Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition, Volume 3
- Publisher
- World Bank
- Edition
- 3rd ed., 2015 (open access, CC BY 3.0 IGO)
- ISBN-13
- 9781464803499
Cost-effectiveness evidence for cancer interventions and service platforms, with essential packages for low- and middle-income settings. Its message that building cancer control capacity takes many years frames the capacity chapters.
Table of Contents5 entries
- 1 Summary
- Part 1 Burden: the changing global burden of cancer
- Part 2 Interventions: breast, cervical, oral, colorectal and other priority cancers; tobacco control
- Part 3 Platforms and services: cancer services, surgery and radiotherapy
- Part 4 Economics: cancer in low- and middle-income countries, an economic overview; financing and costs
03WHO Report on Cancer ≈ contents
Setting Priorities, Investing Wisely and Providing Care for All
- Publisher
- World Health Organization
- Edition
- 2020
- ISBN-13
- 9789240001305
- Electronic ISBN
- 9789240001299
The global policy reference for national cancer control: priority setting, evidence-based interventions along the cancer continuum and strategic investment. Useful context for system-level capacity and access discussions.
Table of Contents7 entries
- The global cancer burden and its drivers
- Setting priorities for national cancer control
- Prevention
- Early diagnosis and screening
- Treatment, palliative care and survivorship
- Health system requirements and financing
- Agenda for accelerated action
04Setting Up a Cancer Centre ≈ contents
A WHO-IAEA Framework
- Publisher
- IAEA (STI/PUB/1989)
- Edition
- 2022 (open access)
- ISBN-13
- 9789201004222
A phased framework for establishing or strengthening a cancer centre, detailing infrastructure, human resources and equipment by service level. Directly relevant to the system, capacity and next-generation hospital chapters.
Table of Contents9 entries
- Background: cancer centres and national cancer control
- An example care pathway through a cancer centre
- Diagnosis, staging and multidisciplinary treatment
- Radiotherapy, medical oncology and surgical services
- Supportive, palliative and paediatric oncology services
- Infrastructure, human resources and equipment by level
- Information systems and medical records
- Education, training and research
- Administration, financing and quality assurance
05Planning National Radiotherapy Services ≈ contents
A Practical Tool
- Publisher
- IAEA (Human Health Series No. 14)
- Edition
- 2010 (pub. 2011, open access)
- ISBN-13
- 9789201059109
A practical method for estimating radiotherapy need from the cancer burden, auditing existing resources and closing the gap rationally. The basis for machine-per-million and capacity-gap reasoning.
Table of Contents5 entries
- Assessing the current and future cancer burden
- Evaluating existing radiotherapy resources
- Estimating radiotherapy needs
- Determining the gap between need and supply
- Planning and phasing the expansion of services
06Radiotherapy Facilities ≈ contents
Master Planning and Concept Design Considerations
- Publisher
- IAEA (Human Health Reports No. 10)
- Edition
- 2014 (open access)
- ISBN-13
- 9789201019141
Guidance on master planning and concept design for radiotherapy departments, bridging national service planning and the design of an individual facility.
Table of Contents5 entries
- Planning a radiotherapy facility within a cancer centre
- Functional areas and space requirements
- Equipment and technology considerations
- Radiation protection and shielding concepts
- Phasing, expansion and future-proofing
Quality and Safety in Radiation Oncology
The two reference texts on building quality management, error prevention and quality assurance into radiotherapy practice.
07Quality and Safety in Radiotherapy
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- Edition
- 2010 (pub. Dec 2010)
- ISBN-13
- 9781439804360
The first text devoted solely to quality and safety in radiotherapy, combining lean thinking, risk management and human factors with technical QA. Supports the KPI and incident-reporting arguments of Chapter 2.
Table of Contents7 entries
- Part I Quality Management and Improvement
- Part II Patient Safety and Managing Error
- Part III Methods to Assure and Improve Quality
- Part IV People and Quality
- Part V Quality Assurance in Radiotherapy
- Part VI Quality Control: Equipment
- Part VII Quality Control: Patient-Specific
08Quality and Safety in Radiation Oncology
Implementing Tools and Best Practices for Patients, Providers, and Payers
- Publisher
- Demos Medical / Springer Publishing
- Edition
- 2016 (pub. Aug 2016)
- ISBN-13
- 9781620700747
A practical guide to value, error prevention, peer review, incident learning and metrics in radiation oncology, with ready-to-use checklists. The applied companion to the peer review and safety indicators discussed in this subtopic.
Table of Contents15 entries
- Part I Basic Concepts in Quality, Value, and Safety
- 1 Introduction to Concepts in Quality, Value, and Safety for Health Care Systems
- 2 Defining Value, American Style
- 5 Error Prevention and Risk Management
- 6 Quality, Value, and the Assessment of New Technology
- Part II Quality in Radiation Physics
- 16 Technical Issues of Safety in a Resource-Limited Environment
- Part III Quality in the Clinical Practice Setting
- 17 Creating a Culture of Safety and Empowerment
- 21 Making Metrics Matter
- 22 The Patient Perspective on Quality and the Role of the Patient in Safety
- 28 Incident Learning Systems
- 30 Quality and the Electronic Medical Record in Radiation Oncology
- 31 Quality and the Third-Party Payer
- Appendix: Quality Assurance and Patient Safety Checklists
Patient-Centred and Supportive Cancer Care
Psychosocial and supportive care as part of the standard of cancer care, complementing the patient-reported outcome and financial toxicity themes.
09Cancer Care for the Whole Patient ≈ contents
Meeting Psychosocial Health Needs
- Publisher
- National Academies Press
- Edition
- 2008
- ISBN-13
- 9780309111072
Sets the standard that high-quality cancer care must address psychosocial needs, with a delivery model of screening, care planning, linkage to services and self-management support.
Table of Contents8 entries
- Summary
- 1 The Psychosocial Needs of Cancer Patients
- 2 Consequences of Unmet Psychosocial Needs
- 3 Psychosocial Health Services
- 4 A Model for Delivering Psychosocial Health Services
- 5 Implementing the Standard of Care
- 7 Preparing the Workforce
- Research priorities
10Psycho-Oncology ≈ contents
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 3rd ed., 2015
- ISBN-13
- 9780199363315
The standard reference on the psychological, social and behavioural dimensions of cancer, developed with the American Psychosocial Oncology Society and the International Psycho-oncology Society.
Table of Contents8 entries
- Behavioural and psychological factors in cancer risk
- Psychological issues across cancer sites and the cancer trajectory
- Screening and assessment for unmet needs
- Symptom management and psychiatric disorders in cancer
- Psychosocial interventions
- Geriatric psycho-oncology
- Underserved populations and community-based programmes
- Caregivers, training and education
Flow, Capacity and Operations Science
The operations management foundations behind the bottleneck, capacity and waiting chapters: process capacity, variability and queues, the theory of constraints and lean.
11Matching Supply with Demand ≈ contents
An Introduction to Operations Management
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Education
- Edition
- 4th ed., 2019 (5th ed. 2024 available)
- ISBN-13
- 9780078096655
The most readable management introduction to process capacity, bottlenecks, flow rate and variability. The source of the capacity chapter's three laws (Little's Law, variability and the occupancy trap).
Table of Contents11 entries
- Introduction
- The Process View of the Organization
- Understanding the Supply Process: Evaluating Process Capacity
- Batching and Other Flow Interruptions
- Quality and Statistical Process Control
- Lean Operations and the Toyota Production System
- Variability and Its Impact on Process Performance: Waiting Time Problems
- The Impact of Variability on Process Performance: Throughput Losses
- Scheduling to Prioritize Demand
- Forecasting
- Revenue Management with Capacity Controls
12The Goal ≈ contents
A Process of Ongoing Improvement
- Publisher
- North River Press
- Edition
- 4th rev. ed. (30th anniversary), 2014
- ISBN-13
- 9780884271956
The business novel that introduced the theory of constraints. It builds the intuition used throughout this subtopic: the slowest link sets the pace, and improving elsewhere only moves the pile.
Table of Contents6 entries
- A plant manager's turnaround told as a novel
- Throughput, inventory and operating expense
- Dependent events and statistical fluctuations
- Finding and exploiting the bottleneck
- Subordinating everything else to the constraint
- The five focusing steps of ongoing improvement
13Factory Physics
- Publisher
- Waveland Press
- Edition
- 3rd ed., 2008 (Waveland reissue 2011)
- ISBN-13
- 9781577667391
The quantitative foundation of flow science: Little's Law, the variability-utilisation relationship and push versus pull systems, explaining why waiting explodes as occupancy approaches 100%.
Table of Contents14 entries
- Part I The Lessons of History
- Part II Factory Physics
- Basic Factory Dynamics
- Variability Basics
- The Corrupting Influence of Variability
- Push and Pull Production Systems
- The Human Element in Operations Management
- Total Quality Manufacturing
- Part III Principles in Practice
- Shop Floor Control
- Production Scheduling
- Aggregate and Workforce Planning
- Capacity Management
- Synthesis: Pulling It All Together
14Lean Thinking ≈ contents
Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Edition
- Revised and updated ed., 2003
- ISBN-13
- 9780743249270
The five lean principles (value, value stream, flow, pull, perfection) that underpin process redesign in chemotherapy units, infusion clinics and radiotherapy planning.
Table of Contents4 entries
- Part I Lean Principles: value, the value stream, flow, pull and perfection
- Part II From Thinking to Action: the lean leap in different organisations
- Part III The Lean Leap: an action plan
- Afterword: lean thinking in the years since first publication
Oncology Data, Informatics and Process Mining
How health information technology and event data make cancer care processes visible, measurable and improvable.
15Oncology Informatics ≈ contents
Using Health Information Technology to Improve Processes and Outcomes in Cancer Care
- Publisher
- Academic Press (Elsevier)
- Edition
- 2016
- ISBN-13
- 9780128021156
Evidence from the US National Cancer Institute on using health IT across the cancer continuum, from a learning health care system in oncology to data visualisation and comparative effectiveness infrastructure.
Table of Contents6 entries
- Editors' introduction: why this book now
- Part I An Extraordinary Opportunity: creating a learning health care system in oncology
- Part II Support across the cancer continuum: engaging patients, coordination at the point of need, survivorship and end-of-life care
- Part III The Science of Oncology Informatics: data visualisation, behavioural science, communication science, cancer surveillance
- Part IV A data-rich environment: health IT infrastructure for comparative effectiveness research
- Editors' conclusion: building for change
16Process Mining
Data Science in Action
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2nd ed., 2016
- ISBN-13
- 9783662498507
The standard reference on process mining by the founder of the field: event logs, discovery, conformance checking and enhancement. The methodological backbone of the Process Mining 101 chapter.
Table of Contents6 entries
- Part I Introduction: Data Science in Action; Process Mining, the Missing Link
- Part II Preliminaries: Process Modeling and Analysis; Data Mining
- Part III From Event Logs to Process Models: Getting the Data; Process Discovery
- Part IV Beyond Process Discovery: Conformance Checking; Mining Additional Perspectives; Operational Support
- Part V Putting Process Mining to Work: Software; Process Mining in the Large; Lasagna and Spaghetti Processes
- Part VI Reflection: Cartography and Navigation; Epilogue
Causal and Realist Evaluation Methods
Methods behind the causal chain, DAG and realist evaluation chapters: mediation and interaction, context-mechanism-outcome reasoning and configurational comparison.
17Explanation in Causal Inference ≈ contents
Methods for Mediation and Interaction
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 2015
- ISBN-13
- 9780199325870
The counterfactual treatment of mediation and interaction that the causal chain chapter recommends in place of Baron-Kenny style analyses, including sensitivity analysis for unmeasured confounding.
Table of Contents3 entries
- Part I Mediation: counterfactual definitions, regression-based approaches, sensitivity analysis, multiple and time-varying mediators
- Part II Interaction: additive and multiplicative interaction, mechanistic interaction, attributing effects to interactions
- Part III Synthesis: mediation and interaction together, spillover effects and interference
18Realistic Evaluation ≈ contents
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Edition
- 1997
- ISBN-13
- 9780761950097
The founding text of realist evaluation and the context-mechanism-outcome (CMO) configuration used to evaluate MDT, telehealth and QA/QI programmes in this subtopic.
Table of Contents6 entries
- A history of evaluation and the limits of experimental designs
- The realist explanation: mechanisms, contexts and outcomes
- Building and testing programme theories
- Realist evaluation in practice: case studies
- Cumulation: building middle-range theory across evaluations
- The realist evaluator and the policy community
19Redesigning Social Inquiry ≈ contents
Fuzzy Sets and Beyond
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 2008
- ISBN-13
- 9780226702759
Ragin's guide to set-theoretic, configurational comparison, the logic behind the crisp-set QCA used to test which combinations of structure, feedback loop and ownership produce results.
Table of Contents4 entries
- Part I Set-theoretic social research: set relations, consistency and coverage
- Part II Fuzzy sets: calibration, fuzzy-set relations and truth tables
- Part III Limited diversity and counterfactual analysis
- Part IV Fuzzy sets beyond QCA
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