Assessing and improving value in cancer care
Subtitle: workshop summary
By: Adam Schickedanz, rapporteur ; National Cancer Policy Forum, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Contributors: National Cancer Policy Forum (U.S.)
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780309138147
Notes: "On February 9 and 10, 2009, a public workshop titled Assessing and Improving Value in Cancer Care was presented to the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) National Cancer Policy Forum (the forum). This workshop was the result of the forum's discussions of value in oncology during meetings held between March 2007 and October 2008."--P. 1.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Opening remarks : what is value in cancer care and why is it important?; title: Challenges to value in cancer care; title: Clinician-patient communication and its influence on value; title: Generating evidence about effectiveness and value; title: Value and the oncology market; title: Value in oncology practice : oncologist and health insurer perspectives; title: Ethical issues and value in oncology; title: Solutions for value in cancer care; title: Improving value in oncology practice : ways forward; title: Toward a shared understanding of value.