American Society of Clinical Oncology Identifies Five Key Opportunities to Improve Care and Reduce Costs: The Top Five List for Oncology
Cet article de l'"American Society of Clinical Oncology" propose cinq axes stratégiques pour améliorer la qualité des soins en oncologie tout en réduisant les coûts associés
Advancements in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer have contributed to improved survival, better quality of life, and declining death rates in the United States. With these successes have come increases in cost to a level that is now causing serious financial burdens to patients, families, and society at large. If current trends remain unchanged, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) project that US health care spending will reach $4.3 trillion and account for 19.3% of the nation’s gross domestic product by 2019.1 Although cancer care represents a small proportion of the health care costs in the nation, its cost is rising precipitously2,3 and will increase as our population ages and the disease