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Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2008;134(6):672.

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In 2005 under the leadership of then-President Randal S. Weber, MD, the American Head and Neck Society formed an ad hoc committee on quality of care whose charge was to develop evidence-based quality of care measures for patients with head and neck neoplasia. Developing these guidelines was viewed as imperative to providing the highest quality of care for our patients and to ensure that the American Head and Neck Society provides leadership in defining appropriate standards of care in an era of value-based purchasing.

Amy Y. Chen, MD, MPH, and Dr Weber are co-chairs of the committee. Steps for developing these quality of care measures included:

1. Identifying a neoplastic disease of high prevalence in the head and neck surgery practice.
   
2. Identifying common measurable treatment practices during the preoperative, course of treatment, and posttreatment periods.
   
3. Performing literature reviews to identify evidence for the measures from step 2.
   
4. Proposing measures by which . . . [Full Text of this Article]