{
  "abstract": "Many patients with cancer are diagnosed in an emergency care context (often also termed ‘emergency presentation’ (EP)), and these patients have markedly worse prognosis and poorer patient experience even after adjustment for stage at diagnosis.1 2 Therefore, reducing the frequency of diagnosis of cancer as an emergency is an important public health and healthcare quality improvement target. Yet the extent to which preventing diagnosis as an emergency leads to improved survival remains unclear, and we do not know whether effective strategies to reduce the frequency of emergency diagnosis exist. Khalaf et al provide important new evidence to help address these critical questions.3",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Epidemiology of Cancer Healthcare & Outcomes (ECHO), Research Department of Behavioural Science and Health, Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care (IEHC), University College London, London, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Marta Berglund"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Epidemiology of Cancer Healthcare & Outcomes (ECHO), Research Department of Behavioural Science and Health, Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care (IEHC), University College London, London, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Matthew E Barclay"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Epidemiology of Cancer Healthcare & Outcomes (ECHO), Research Department of Behavioural Science and Health, Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care (IEHC), University College London, London, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Georgios Lyratzopoulos"
    }
  ],
  "title": "From measurement to improvement: new evidence towards reducing emergency diagnosis of cancer",
  "uid": "3181604f-3f82-5bf9-a294-28120b735652"
}