WCOE: Susan Gubar Giving Thoughts of Thanks, Discovering Patients’ Wishes, JAMA Study on Advance Care Planning, and More
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. Living With Cancer: Curses and Blessings https://t.co/1JPw42OYPC via @nytimeswell— NCCS - National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (@CancerAdvocacy) July 17, 2015 "The real test for physicians is being willing to meet the challenge ...
Medicare Proposal to Cover Advance Care Planning Conversations Marks an Important Step toward Patient-Centered Care
Last week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced plans to support Medicare beneficiaries by reimbursing doctors for advance care planning beginning in January 2016. The proposed codes would reimburse for discussions about an individual’s wishes, should he or she becomes too ill to make decisions, and for ...
Discussing “Good” and “Hard” Deaths: Columnist Ellen Goodman’s Opinion Piece “How to Talk About Dying”
In a recent opinion post in The New York Times, columnist Ellen Goodman writes intimately about the loss of her parents. Decades after the death of her father, Goodman felt wholly unprepared for the decisions that needed to be made as her mother’s health declined, assuming—like many caregivers and loved ...
WCOE: Patients’ Need to Be Advised, Confidence in Cost Communication, Compassion, and NCCS CEO Weighs in on CMS’ Oncology Care Model
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. Living With Cancer: Patients on Our Own https://t.co/STkNQmCd2C SUsan Gubar's latest post via @nytimeswell— NCCS - National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (@CancerAdvocacy) May 22, 2015 ASCO Updates Its Templates for Disease-Specific #Survivorship ...
WCOE: Becoming a Caregiver, Homemade Cards From A Survivor, Quality of Life Talks, and Atul Gawande’s Latest
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. Susan Gubar's Living With Cancer: Becoming a Caregiver https://t.co/OaEHabDNs0 via @nytimeswell— NCCS - National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (@CancerAdvocacy) May 8, 2015 A cancer survivor designs the cards she wishes she’d received ...
WCOE: An ACA Marketplace FAQ, Fear of Recurrence, Seeking a Beautiful Death and Perspectives on Drug Innovation
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. In today's FAQ: Info about the #ACA marketplace special enrollment period that begins Sundayhttps://t.co/qtF825CflL pic.twitter.com/0XJtBK8jjl— KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) (@KFF) March 13, 2015 Coping with Fear of Recurrence: Part 1 https://t.co/vj3VUi22vl via ...
Decision-Making in Cancer Care: Communication (INFOGRAPHIC)
The second principle of the Imperatives for Quality Cancer Care states, “Quality cancer care should be available in a health care system whose standards and guidelines are developed in consideration of treating the whole person with cancer. Health care plans must regard the cancer patient as an autonomous individual who has the right to ...
WCOE: Pace of FDA Drug Approvals, Redesigning Insurance Exchanges, Shared Decision Making, and Thoughts on Data Collection
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. Too Fast, or Too Slow? Public disagrees over pace of #FDA's new drug approvals https://t.co/gnvqJq56AH via @RAPSorg— ResearchAmerica (@ResearchAmerica) February 25, 2015 Everything I know about a good death I learned from ...
Guest Post: Palliative Care in Oncology—We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby …But Let’s Not Rest on Our Laurels
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.” -William Osler Since the creation of the National Cancer Act in 1971, the medical establishment—and indeed our entire society—has taken up the powerful metaphor of a “war on cancer” as the approach to attacking and ...
Treating the Whole Person: Understanding and Gaining Access to Palliative Care
As part of our 20 Years Later blog series, NCCS CEO Shelley Fuld Nasso discusses the difference between palliative and end-of-life care, as well as barriers to palliative care in this video. The second principle from the Imperatives for Quality Cancer Care states, “Quality cancer care should be available in ...
