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2 Opening Remarks: What Is Value in Cancer Care and Why Is It Important?
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... Scott Ramsey of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Oncology spending is growing at more than 15 percent annually, faster than total health spending and much faster than total United States gross domestic product (GDP)
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... In addition, the health care delivery system's incentives favor treatment over many other important steps, such as providing patients further information, comfort measures, or end-of-life planning, and these may take second place to costly interventions. The task set out for this workshop by the planning committee is to address issues related to value in cancer care by identifying agreement in our understanding of value and providing policy tools that can lead to improvements in the value of cancer services provided to patients, said Dr.
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... TABLE 2-1  Concepts, Domains, Metrics, and Assessments of Value Identified in an Informal Survey of Workshop Speakers Concepts and Domains Duration of life Quality of life Health Status Cost Quality of care Equity Compassion Opportunity Metrics and Assessments QALYs Cost per QALY Cost for quality Efficiency Effectiveness Necessity Reasonableness Affordability SOURCE: Ramsey presentation, February 9, 2009.
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... 2008. Ensuring value for money in health care: The role of health technology assessment in the European Union.


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