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