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Equity in Cancer Care: Pathways, Protocols, and Guidelines, May 2012

The quality of care received by patients often differs based on numerous factors, including but not limited to, treatment protocols that are being used in practice, health care setting, geographic location, access to medications, and insurance coverage. Recently, the issue of whether standardized treatment protocols, also known as pathways, can reduce costs without reducing the quality of care has been the subject of much debate, as has been their ability to reduce variance of care. As pathways are increasingly deployed in practice, they have a growing impact on how treatment is delivered and ultimately on health outcomes for patients.

On May 11, 2012, NCCN will host an invitation-only NCCN Policy Summit: Equity in Cancer Care: Pathways, Protocols, and Guidelines. This policy summit will be a forum to discuss the implementation of pathways, including but not limited to, how much flexibility pathways should allow in care, how pathways impact public and private health insurance benefit design, what impact pathways may have on variation in care, and how data is used to determine pathways.

 

 

 

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