Developing a quality evaluation indicator system for lung cancer diagnosis and treatment: a modified Delphi method study
Liming Shi, Kailun Fei, Meicen Liu, Chengcheng Zhou, Juan Yang, Jincheng Yang, Jie Wang, Zhijie Wang, Wenjing Yang · 2026
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Liming Shi and colleagues reported in 2026 on building a scorecard for judging the quality of lung cancer diagnosis and treatment. Lung cancer is China's commonest and deadliest cancer, yet hospitals lacked a shared, weighted set of quality indicators. The team used the Donabedian model, which splits quality into structure, process, and outcome, and ran two rounds of a Delphi consultation, where experts rate items until they converge. An analytic hierarchy process then converted expert judgements into weights.
The finished system holds three top-level indicators, fifteen secondary ones, and fifty-five detailed measures. Structure covers staff, rules, and facilities; process runs from diagnosis and team review through surgery, drugs, radiation, and follow-up; outcomes cover effectiveness, safety, and timeliness. Expert participation stayed above ninety-six percent across rounds, and their agreement strengthened. The authors offer the weighted system as a credible shared yardstick for hospitals.
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| CREATOR | Liming Shi, Kailun Fei, Meicen Liu, Chengcheng Zhou, Juan Yang, Jincheng Yang, Jie Wang, Zhijie Wang, Wenjing Yang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31866 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |