Quality indicators for end-of life breast cancer care: testing the use of administrative databases in two provinces

Measuring quality end-of-life care has been identified by both the Senate Committee on End-of-life Care and the Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control as essential to improve and monitor end-of-life care in Canada. Quality indicators are tools designed to measure quality of care and thus help enhance quality through identifying areas needing improvement. The overall objective of this pilot study is to assess the feasibility of using routinely collected administrative data to measure poplulation-based indicators of quality end-of-life with breast cancer. The pilot study will assess administrative data from Ontario and Nova Scotia.