Cancer pathways can potentially improve patient outcomes and reduce costs. Recent concerns about pathway adoption deserve attention, including excessive administrative burden to clinics. To the extent ...

• Care pathways are used to bring a standard operating procedure to the practice of medicine, and reduce variances of patient care. • There is no standard for creating pathways, it’s not clear which ...

Despite rising medical costs within the US healthcare system, quality and outcomes are not improving. Without significant policy reform, the cost-quality imbalance will reach unsustainable proportions ...

For decades, chronic disease management in Medicare has been hampered by a fee-for-service payment system that rewards volume and activity rather than true clinical improvement. This model created ...

The release of CMS’s new Innovation Center Strategy isn’t just a change in policy; it’s a realignment of the patient journey. As value-based care gains new momentum, we are being asked to look at care ...

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Versus Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy: An Emerging Initial Radiation Treatment Option for Organ-Confined Prostate Cancer ...

Current cancer follow-up care models in the United States and other countries fail to meet patients’ needs. The ability of current follow-up care models to meet patients’ needs in the future will ...

As healthcare becomes more entrenched in the digital revolution, the need for an approved set of protocols for care delivery — clinical pathways — is becoming increasingly critical. Clinical pathways, ...

Sue Thomas explains how Wilmington Healthcare's unique behavioural methodology is helping to define best practice pathways for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) during the pandemic The ...

The four-year Care of the Underserved Pathway coordinates current offerings on underserved care and present them to students in a more formal and organized fashion across the four years. This pathway ...