A foundation for evidence-driven practice
Subtitle: a rapid learning system for cancer care : workshop summary
By: Sharon Murphy and Margie Patlak, rapporteurs ; National Cancer Policy Forum, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Contributors: National Cancer Policy Forum (U.S.); Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Health Care Services
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9780309151269
Subjects: Medical care; Evidence-based medicine; Congresses; Treatment; Cancer
Other titles: Rapid learning system for cancer care
Description: "The IOM's National Cancer Policy Forum held a workshop October 5-6, 2009, to examine how to apply the concept of a 'rapid learning health system' to the problem of cancer. This document summarizes the workshop."--web page.
Notes: Title from resource title page (National Academies Press, viewed July 2, 2010)

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Overview; title: Basic elements and building blocks of a RLHS for cancer; title: A private RLHS: Kaise Permanente; title: Patient-driven rapid learning systems; title: Challenges and opportunities; title: The Federal challenge of responding to the need for a RLHS; title: Summary.