Assessing and Improving Value in Cancer Care Workshop Summary (2009) / Chapter Skim
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Those discussions, involving forum chair Harold Moses and led by forum members Scott Ramsey, Peter Bach, Betty Ferrell, Roy Herbst, John Niederhuber, Edith Perez, and Ellen Stovall, among others, resulted in the appointment of a planning group led by Scott Ramsey. During their initial discussions, members of the forum observed that many new treatments in oncology carried increasingly unsustainable eco The forum was established as a unit of the IOM on May 1, 2005, with support from the following agencies of the U.S.
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Throughout the workshop, attendees from a multitude of fields related to cancer care, health economics, ethics, and public policy engaged with the workshop's two dozen speakers to raise questions, offer thoughts, and contribute suggestions. This workshop summary details the presentations and discussions that took place during this workshop on assessing and improving value in cancer care.
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