Assessing and improving value in cancer care : workshop summary - Schickedanz, Adam.; National Cancer Policy Forum (U.S.) (Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2009)
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.
"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.
Keywords: Cancer -- Treatment -- Economic aspects -- Congresses; Cancer -- Patients -- Medical care -- Congresses; Neoplasms -- therapy; Neoplasms -- economics -- United States; Patients