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Amy Berman, BS, RN, Discusses Patient-Centered Oncology Care
Amy Berman, BS, RN, says that all too often, people end up in the hospital because they don't know where else to go for treatment.
Amy Berman, BS, RN, says that all too often, people end up in the hospital because they don’t know where else to go for treatment.
“The opportunity in community-based support is that we can prevent people from needlessly going back to the hospital when they have serious illness including cancer,” says Ms Berman.
She adds that palliative care is also patient-centered care.
“Palliative care is person-centered to the core,” suggests Ms Berman. “Person-centered care really is about addressing the total need of the patient, not just a clinical condition, but where that patient wants to go in terms of their health.”
Personalized Care Key as Tirzepatide Use Expands Rapidly
April 15th 2025Using commercial insurance claims data and the US launch of tirzepatide as their dividing point, John Ostrominski, MD, Harvard Medical School, and his team studied trends in the use of both glucose-lowering and weight-lowering medications, comparing outcomes between adults with and without type 2 diabetes.
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Navigating Sport-Related Neurospine Injuries, Surgery, and Managed Care
February 25th 2025On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Arthur L. Jenkins III, MD, FACS, CEO of Jenkins NeuroSpine, to explore the intersection of advanced surgical care for sport-related neurospine injuries and managed care systems.
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NCCN Data Find Racial, Socioeconomic Disparities in Quality of Care for Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
April 9th 2025New data from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) reveal that socially vulnerable and minority patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer are less likely to receive recommended treatments and achieve longer survival.
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