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Cancer Patients Do Not Demand Inappropriate Intervention, Study Finds
An accompanying editorial by a Fred Hutch researcher says, "The demanding cancer patient looks less like a budget buster and more like an urban myth."
According to a recent study published in JAMA Oncology, medical intervention was demanded or requested by 8.7% of patients with cancer, of which, only 11.4% of requests or demands were deemed inappropriate—contrary to commonly held perceptions by clinicians.
The survey included 3624 unique patients and 60 clinicians, including oncologists, oncology fellows, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, who practiced at 3 Philadelphia-area hospitals. Immediately following a patient—clinician encounter or after a half-day clinic session, the clinician was privately interviewed by a trained research associate. United States census data from 2010 were used to determine patient socioeconomic status according to zip code.
Link to the complet article on Cancer Therapy Advisor: http://bit.ly/1JKlCpI
Oncology Onward: A Conversation With Penn Medicine's Dr Justin Bekelman
December 19th 2023Justin Bekelman, MD, director of the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation, sat with our hosts Emeline Aviki, MD, MBA, and Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA, for our final episode of 2023 to discuss the importance of collaboration between academic medicine and community oncology and testing innovative cancer care delivery in these settings.
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