February 23rd 2023
February 23rd 2023
Government Websites Hosting 20 Years' Worth of Guidelines Data to End
July 13th 2018Providers, payers, and patients looking to do research on a clinical guideline need to get busy: They only have this weekend to download thousands of pages from federally funded websites that will close due to federal budget cuts in President Donald Trump’s budget.
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Asymptomatic Adults Do Not Need Peripheral Artery Disease Screening, USPSTF Says
July 11th 2018The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) decided that current evidence is insufficient to recommend screening for peripheral artery disease and cardiovascular risk with the ankle-brachial index in asymptomatic adults.
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Study Suggests HPV Test More Accurate Than Pap Smear for Cervical Cancer Screening
July 5th 2018During the first round of screening, a human papillomavirus (HPV) test detected more abnormal cells grade 3 or worse in the cervix than a Papanicolau (Pap) smear, resulting in a lower liklihood of abnormal cells grade 3 or worse at 48 months.
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Folic Acid Fortification May Have Role in Sustaining Mental Health
July 3rd 2018Using a series of small public data sets, researchers found a positive association of prenatal exposure to folic acid fortification with subsequent cortical development in the brain—considered key for cognitive and mental health—through adolescence. The finding suggests that increased prenatal exposure to folic acid through food fortification may protect against psychosis through altered postnatal cortical development.
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TAILORx Results May Mitigate Financial Toxicity
June 21st 2018TAILORx is very good news for an estimated 60,000 women a year, who in years past would have received chemotherapy, possibly risking long-term physical and mental side effects, in addition to experiencing what is now an additional and recognized side effect of cancer treatment: financial toxicity.
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Dr Derek Raghavan Explains How Use of Guidelines Can Address Issues of Cost and Variation
May 26th 2018Guidelines can help address issues of cost and variation, especially in complex diseases, said Derek Raghavan, MD, PhD, FACP, FRACP, president, Carolinas HealthCare System's Levine Cancer Institute.
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Dr Derek Raghavan: Evidence-Based Guidelines Will Improve Cancer Outcomes, Reduce Costs
May 9th 2018The purpose of evidence-based guidelines is to reduce the level of variation, improve outcomes, and reduce costs, said Derek Raghavan, MD, PhD, FACP, FRACP, president, Carolinas HealthCare System's Levine Cancer Institute.
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Dr Derek Raghavan Provides Best Practices for Implementing Guidelines
April 26th 2018Physician involvement, patient input, and accuracy are the most important aspects of successfully implementing guidelines, said Derek Raghavan, MD, PhD, FACP, FRACP, president, Carolinas HealthCare System's Levine Cancer Institute.
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Torrie Fields: Collecting and Using Data Can Better Inform a Patient
April 12th 2018The more data providers have on a patient, the better understanding they have about the type of treatment plan that works best with the patient’s goals, explained Torrie K. Fields, MPH, senior program manager of Palliative Care Program Design & Implementation for Blue Shield of California.
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Insight Into ASCO's Evaluation of Clinical Pathway Vendors
April 2nd 2018Following the American Society of Clinical Oncology's (ASCO's) evaluation of leading oncology clinical pathway vendors nationwide, an article in Journal of Clinical Pathways provided insight into the evaluation from 2 of the report's co-authors.
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Development and Implementation of an Academic Cancer Therapy Stewardship Program
A cancer therapy stewardship program can be used to improve clinical quality and patient care by emphasizing the importance of value and evidence in oncology.
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Modest Improvement in Heart Failure Patients With Collaborative Care Intervention
March 4th 2018A recently published study in JAMA Internal Medicine sought to determine whether a symptom and psychosocial collaborative care intervention improves heart failure–specific health status, depression, and symptom burden in patients with heart failure.
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NCCN Releases Guidelines to Address Treatment Gaps for People With HIV and Cancer
February 28th 2018The National Comprehensive Cancer Center (NCCN) has released new NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology to help ensure that people living with HIV who are diagnosed with cancer receive safe and necessary treatment.
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Study Finds Written Standardized Protocol Leads to Better Surgical Outcomes
February 24th 2018A study to be published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons found that a safety-net hospital in Florida could perform an esophagectomy, a highly complex operation, with fewer complications and shorter hospital stays than the national average.
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New Risk Group Model for Prostate Cancer May Lead to Better Treatment
February 23rd 2018A new study integrates traditional National Comprehensive Cancer Network prostate cancer guidelines with genetic information found in biopsied tissue to more accurately predict which men have more aggressive forms of prostate cancer.
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Liquid Biopsy Can Predict Outcomes in Patients With Triple-Negative Breast Cancer, Researchers Say
February 22nd 2018Cell-free DNA derived from liquid biopsy offers the potential for minimally invasive genome-wide profiling of tumor alterations without tumor biopsy and can predict patient survival outcomes for patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer, according to a team of researchers.
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New ECPR Protocol Shows Increase in Survival of Some Cardiac Arrest Patients
February 17th 2018A new protocol is being tested at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center called an ECPR alert. The alert is designed for usage after ventricular fibrillation has been administered 3 times and the patient has remained in this rhythm.
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Cost-Effectiveness of Collaborative Care for Depression and PTSD in Military Personnel
Centrally assisted collaborative telecare is a cost-effective strategy relative to usual care for treating posttraumatic stress disorder and depression in the Military Health System.
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ASCO Review Finds Clinical Pathway Programs Adhere to Guidelines
February 13th 2018Last week, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) published its review of the leading oncology pathway vendors in the United States in the Journal of Oncology Practice. The report found that overall, the prominent commercial pathway programs in the United States are aligned with ASCO’s evaluation criteria.
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Guidelines for Management of Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer
February 10th 2018With new guidelines on how to treat and manage muscle-invasive bladder cancer, Jeffrey Holzbeierlein, MD, FACS, professor of urology, director of urologic oncology, interim chair of the department of urology, University of Kansas Health System, provided insight into how the guidelines have changed the management of the disease at the 2018 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.
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