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WCOE: Making Informed Healthcare Decisions, Something We Can All Agree On, and the Power of Advocacy

April 24, 2015/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Clinical Guidelines, Payment Reform, Quality Cancer Care, Survivorship Care NCCS News /by actualize
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention.

 

Few Consumers Are Using Quality, Price Information To Make Health Care Decisions http://t.co/jHm1W09icY

— Amy Berman (@NotesOnNursing) April 21, 2015

Conversations w/ advocates @sfuldnasso "Payment reform should focus on quality, not quantity of patient care" @PhRMA http://t.co/xhpKTdG0tr

— NCCS – National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (@CancerAdvocacy) April 24, 2015

Why Many Doctors Don't Follow 'Best Practices' http://t.co/ps4JMu9PPo "We are not absolutely rational, decision-making machines." @nprnews

— NCCS – National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (@CancerAdvocacy) April 23, 2015

More federal cancer research funding is something we can ALL agree on. Check out the op-ed from @NewtGingrich http://t.co/pmSZP9YQ9t

— ACSCAN (@ACSCAN) April 22, 2015

 

Advocacy matters. "anyone who has had a diagnosis of cancer and is living is a survivor" @sfuldnasso @LillieShockney @CancerAdvocacy

— Dave Bjork (@bjork5) April 23, 2015

 

"Advocacy for yourself may be the difference that turns feeling hopeless and helpless into feeling hopeful" @CancerAdvocacy @StupidCancer

— Amber Gillespie (@AmberNGillespie) April 25, 2015

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    • Quality Cancer Care
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    • 2020 State of Cancer Survivorship Survey
    • Cancer Care Planning and Communications Act (CCPCA)
  • Get Involved
    • What is Advocacy?
    • Cancer Policy and Advocacy Team (CPAT)
    • Elevating Survivorship
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    • Order Our Resources
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