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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823525103321

Titolo

Assessing and improving value in cancer care [[electronic resource] ] : workshop summary / / Adam Schickedanz, rapporteur ; National Cancer Policy Forum, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2009

ISBN

0-309-14733-6

1-282-43722-4

9786612437229

0-309-13815-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (165 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SchickedanzAdam

Disciplina

616.994

Soggetti

Cancer - Patients - Medical care

Cancer - Treatment - Economic aspects

Cancer

Neoplasms - therapy

Neoplasms - economics

Outcome Assessment, Health Care - economics

Congress.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Opening Remarks: What Is Value in Cancer Care and Why Is It Important?""; ""PART I: Challenges to Value in Cancer Care""; ""3 Clinician Patient Communication and Its Influence on Value""; ""4 Generating Evidence About Effectiveness and Value""; ""5 Value and the Oncology Market""; ""6 Value in Oncology Practice: Oncologist and Health Insurer Perspectives""; ""7 Ethical Issues and Value in Oncology""; ""PART II:Solutions for Value in Cancer Care""; ""8 Improving Value in Oncology Practice: Ways Forward""

""9 Toward a Shared Understanding of Value""""Acronyms""; ""Glossary""; ""Appendix A: Workshop Agenda""; ""Appendix B: Speaker



and Moderator Biographies""