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    Increasing Necessary Care Variation To Improve Patient Care | Health Affairs Forefront - 2 year(s) ago

    To deliver truly patient-centered care, we must both reduce unnecessary practice variation in care and increase truly necessary care variation. Unfortunately, today’s care transformation efforts largely ignore this second, critical part of both care model design and outcome measurement. As a result, most approaches lack the ability to define, measure, understand, and appreciate necessary…

    Source: www.healthaffairs.org
    Categories: General Medicine Journals and Societies, Latest Headlines
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      In their new Forefront article, @ChrisDeRienzoMD + Ronald Paulus from @WakeMed discuss how to deliver truly #PatientCenteredCare, we must both reduce unnecessary practice variation in care and increase truly necessary care variation. https://t.co/DHd4r5r0ga

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    Integrating Functional Assessment Into Clinical Decision-Making for Older Adults Across the Cancer Care Continuum - 2 year(s) ago

    The care of frail, older adults with advanced cancer presents many challenges for oncology clinicians, and central among them is the assessment of functional status and its integration into treatment decision making. In this population, impaired function may be due to cancer but may also be due to other comorbidities or frailty, factors that traditional performance status measures do not…

    Source: JCO Oncology Practice
    Categories: Hem/Onc News and Journals, Latest Headlines
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      #JCOOP Editorial @dlage: Clinicians/researchers should think critically of older adults' functional status in the context of their goals & values to ensure high-quality, #patientcenteredcare for frail pts navigating a complex health system. #gerionc https://t.co/iKxw1FvTxb

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    A randomized control trial evaluating fluorescent ink versus dark ink tattoos for breast radiotherapy - PubMed - 2 year(s) ago

    UV tattoos were associated with interfraction setup reproducibility comparable with conventional dark ink. Patients reported a more favourable change in body image score up to 6 months following treatment. Advances in knowledge: This study is the first to evaluate UV tattoo external references in a …

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      #ESTRO2022 Prior RCT ⚖️ from UK 🇬🇧 shows tattoos in #bcsm #radonc cause ⬇️ patient body image at 6 months: https://t.co/tMDv0WEMsK 👇Dr. Boris Mueller + @LiorBraunstein led clinical implementation and eval of align RT to replace tattoos @MSK_RadOnc.💪🙌 #patientcenteredcare https://t.co/xjoMzc0ENA

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