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When a loved one is diagnosed with cancer, it is often difficult to know what to do. Those who want to help can sometimes make matters worse. Written in a frank conversational manner, this book offers readers specific advice on what to do for a friend or loved one in need, such as offer to do the weekly grocery shopping, pick up the kids from school or bring them to practice, choose to be a chemobuddy, and keep up with bills and other important deadlines. This stressful and uncertain time is difficult for the patient's family and friends. This book provides the support and guidance everyone ne

Cancer -- Patients -- Care. --- Cancer -- Patients -- Psychological aspects. --- Cancer -- Patients -- Treatment. --- Cancer --- Patients --- Care.

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"In the United States, approximately 14 million people have had cancer and more than 1.6 million new cases are diagnosed each year. However, more than a decade after the Institute of Medicine (IOM) first studied the quality of cancer care, the barriers to achieving excellent care for all cancer patients remain daunting. Care often is not patient-centered, many patients do not receive palliative care to manage their symptoms and side effects from treatment, and decisions about care often are not based on the latest scientific evidence. The cost of cancer care also is rising faster than many sectors of medicine--having increased to 125 billion in 2010 from 72 billion in 2004--and is projected to reach 173 billion by 2020. Rising costs are making cancer care less affordable for patients and their families and are creating disparities in patients' access to high-quality cancer care. There also are growing shortages of health professionals skilled in providing cancer care, and the number of adults age 65 and older--the group most susceptible to cancer--is expected to double by 2030, contributing to a 45 percent increase in the number of people developing cancer. The current care delivery system is poorly prepared to address the care needs of this population, which are complex due to altered physiology, functional and cognitive impairment, multiple coexisting diseases, increased side effects from treatment, and greater need for social support. Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care: Charting a New Course for a System in Crisis presents a conceptual framework for improving the quality of cancer care. This study proposes improvements to six interconnected components of care: (1) engaged patients; (2) an adequately staffed, trained, and coordinated workforce; (3) evidence-based care; (4) learning health care information technology (IT); (5) translation of evidence into clinical practice, quality measurement and performance improvement; and (6) accessible and affordable care. This report recommends changes across the board in these areas to improve the quality of care. Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care: Charting a New Course for a System in Crisis provides information for cancer care teams, patients and their families, researchers, quality metrics developers, and payers, as well as HHS, other federal agencies, and industry to reevaluate their current roles and responsibilities in cancer care and work together to develop a higher quality care delivery system. By working toward this shared goal, the cancer care community can improve the quality of life and outcomes for people facing a cancer diagnosis."--

Cancer -- Nursing -- United States. --- Cancer -- Patients -- Care -- United States. --- Cancer --- Informatics --- Primary Health Care --- Health Occupations --- Patient Care Management --- Information Science --- Diseases --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Therapeutics --- Health Services Administration --- Comprehensive Health Care --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Health Care --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Medical Informatics --- Neoplasms --- Quality of Health Care --- Patient-Centered Care --- Evidence-Based Practice --- Patient Care --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Oncology --- Patients --- Care --- Nursing

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Cancer is a transnational condition involving the unprecedented flow of health information, technologies, and people across national borders. Such movement raises questions about the nature of therapeutic citizenship, how and where structurally vulnerable populations obtain care, and the political geography of blame associated with this disease. This volume brings together cutting-edge anthropological research carried out across North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia, representing low-, middle- and high-resource countries with a diversity of national health care systems. Contributors

Cancer -- Patients -- Care -- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Cancer -- Social aspects. --- Medical anthropology. --- Cancer --- Medical anthropology --- Diseases --- Therapeutics --- Sociology --- Population Characteristics --- Health Services --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Health Care --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Patient Care --- Neoplasms --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Oncology --- Social aspects --- Care --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Patients --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Medical care --- Anthropology --- Cancers --- Carcinoma --- Malignancy (Cancer) --- Malignant tumors --- Tumors --- Anthropological aspects --- cancer --- anthropological research --- health --- anthropology