Assessing and improving value in cancer care : workshop summary /
Assessing and improving value in cancer care : workshop summary /
Adam Schickedanz, rapporteur ; National Cancer Policy Forum, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine of the National Academie s.
- Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2009.
- xvi, 148 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
"On February 9 and 10, 2009, a public workshop titled Assessing and Improving Value in Cancer Care was presented to the Institute of Medici ne's (IOM's) National Cancer Policy Forum (the forum). This workshop wa s the result of the forum's discussions of value in oncology during mee tings held between March 2007 and October 2008."--P. 1.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Opening remarks : what is value in cancer care and w hy is it important? -- Challenges to value in cancer care -- Clinician- patient communication and its influence on value -- Generating evidence about effectiveness and value -- Value and the oncology market -- Valu e in oncology practice : oncologist and health insurer perspectives -- Ethical issues and value in oncology -- Solutions for value in cancer c are -- Improving value in oncology practice : ways forward -- Toward a shared understanding of value.
9780309138147 0309138140
Cancer-- Treatment-- Economic aspects-- Congresses.
Cancer-- Patients-- Medical care-- Congresses.
Neoplasms-- therapy.
Neoplasms-- economics--United States.
Patients.
362.196/994
QZ23 / As741 2009
"On February 9 and 10, 2009, a public workshop titled Assessing and Improving Value in Cancer Care was presented to the Institute of Medici ne's (IOM's) National Cancer Policy Forum (the forum). This workshop wa s the result of the forum's discussions of value in oncology during mee tings held between March 2007 and October 2008."--P. 1.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Opening remarks : what is value in cancer care and w hy is it important? -- Challenges to value in cancer care -- Clinician- patient communication and its influence on value -- Generating evidence about effectiveness and value -- Value and the oncology market -- Valu e in oncology practice : oncologist and health insurer perspectives -- Ethical issues and value in oncology -- Solutions for value in cancer c are -- Improving value in oncology practice : ways forward -- Toward a shared understanding of value.
9780309138147 0309138140
Cancer-- Treatment-- Economic aspects-- Congresses.
Cancer-- Patients-- Medical care-- Congresses.
Neoplasms-- therapy.
Neoplasms-- economics--United States.
Patients.
362.196/994
QZ23 / As741 2009