Ensuring Access to Cancer Care
Ensuring Access to Cancer Care - NCBI
The link between poor access to care and poor health outcomes is well established (Hoffman, 1998; IOM, 1994), but the reasons for inadequate access are not ...
Ensuring Quality Cancer Care:Report Summary - NCBI
Quality care means providing patients with appropriate services in a technically competent manner, with good communication, shared decision making, and cultural ...
Every American deserves access to quality, affordable health care. From cancer screenings like mammograms and colonoscopies to the latest breakthroughs in ...
Researchers Set Goals for Improving Access to Cancer Care
Ensure that cancer care is affordable for patients, payers, and society. The high cost of cancer care is a common problem. Costs are ...
Access to Care - NCCS - National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
Access includes adequate health insurance that covers needed treatments without leaving people with cancer to suffer “financial toxicity.” People with cancer ...
Access to Quality Cancer Care | Oncology Nursing Society
To ensure quality cancer care, the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) advocates for the inclusion of oncology nurses on the interprofessional team and in the ...
Ensuring quality cancer treatment - World Health Organization (WHO)
Timely and equitable access to effective therapy for cancer types focuses on treatment of early stage disease that have high rates likelihood of cure while also ...
Deliver Optimal Care - National Cancer Plan
Goal: The health care system delivers to all people evidence-based, patient-centered care that prioritizes prevention, reduces cancer morbidity ...
Overcoming Disparities through Policy - Cancer Progress Report
Policies that improve access to high quality clinical care are critical for ensuring that advances across the cancer care continuum benefit all and reduce ...
Ensuring Global Access to Cancer Medicines: A Generational Call to ...
Many of those costs are then transferred onto patients and households who must pay for cancer care entirely out of pocket. This often leads to ...
Improving Access to Breast Cancer Care
Introducing or expanding existing programs without providing additional human resources can result in 'caregiver burnout' as health professionals encounter more ...
Global disparities in access to cancer care | Communications Medicine
Providing universal health coverage, a current priority of WHO and a major target of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, will be ...
Advocacy and Public Policy | CancerCare
Ensure equitable access to high quality, safe, affordable and comprehensive cancer treatment for all Americans · Monitor and protect against potential ...
What if...everyone had equal access to cancer care?
The new world of equal access to cancer care required major changes in four areas: political will and economic considerations; physical accessibility; financial ...
Ensuring Quality Cancer Care | The National Academies Press
We all want to believe that when people get cancer, they will receive medical care of the highest quality. Even as new scientific breakthroughs are ...
Covered health care systems and narrow networks may be effective in managing the costs, but in the case of cancer patients, they may not enable ...
Making Cancer Treatment More Affordable: MSK Nurses Ensuring ...
Making Cancer Treatment More Affordable: MSK Nurses Ensuring Access to Care · Helping Patients Use Their Insurance To Cover Their Cancer Care.
Access to Cancer Care in Rural Populations: Barriers and Solutions
Tele-oncology, outreach clinics, virtual tumor boards, workforce initiatives, and continued investment in rural cancer research may help ...
Goal 2: Facilitate Equitable Access to Cancer Screening
The Panel supports efforts—including legislation—to ensure that cost-sharing for cancer screening or additional surveillance and recommended ...
Ensuring Patient Access to Cancer Care Must Be a Priority
Patients with cancer are not just faced with a terrifying disease; they must also surmount an uphill climb when it comes to accessing care.