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Keeping Patients With Cancer Out of the ED Through Dedicated Urgent Care
On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we bring you an interview conducted by the editorial director of OncLive® who talks with the advance practice provider chief at Winship Cancer Institute about how having a dedicated cancer urgent care center will make cancer treatment plans seamless whil helping patients avoid exposure to infectious diseases in emergency department waiting rooms.
For one cancer center, an outgrowth of the COVID-19 pandemic spurred plans to create an urgent care center for patients with cancer so that they could stay out of the emergency department (ED). The Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University began planning for construction in 2020 after receiving a sizeable donation and broke ground this year. The Rollins Immediate Care Center is expected to open in 2022.
On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we bring you an interview conducted by the editorial director of OncLive®, Gina Mauro, who talks with Charise Gleason, MSN, NP-BC, AOCNP, the advance practice provider chief at Winship Cancer Institute, about how having a dedicated cancer urgent care center will make cancer treatment plans seamless while helping patients avoid exposure to infectious diseases in ED waiting rooms.
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BrECADD Regimen Reaches “Unprecedently High” PFS for Patients With Hodgkin Lymphoma
June 18th 2024The treatment regimen not only significantly improved progression-free survival (PFS) for patients with advanced stage classic Hodgkin lymphoma but was also better tolerated compared with a 20-year-old regimen being used.
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alloHSCT Yields Benefits in R/R AML Regardless of Leukemia Burden
December 22nd 2023Those with chronic graft-versus-host-disease who have received allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (alloHSCT) may experience enhanced graft-versus-leukemia effects, thus producing a lower relapse rate in acute myeloid leukemia.
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Exploring Racial, Ethnic Disparities in Cancer Care Prior Authorization Decisions
October 24th 2024On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the author of a study published in the October 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® that explored prior authorization decisions in cancer care by race and ethnicity for commercially insured patients.
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Zanubrutinib May Be Viable Option After Acalabrutinib Intolerance in B-Cell Malignancies
December 11th 2023Patients with B-cell malignancies who were intolerant to treatment with acalabrutinib experienced clinically meaningful benefits when treated with zanubrutinib, suggesting zanubrutinib may be a viable treatment option for this population.
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