Five Policy Levers To Meet The Value Challenge In Cancer Care

Managed care on the march: will physicians meet the challenge?

The health care delivery system in the United States is in transition. Increasingly managed care plans are gaining in predominance. The proliferation of managed care systems will have an impact on the demand and requirements for physicians. This paper attempts to project and estimate requirements for physicians in 2000 and 2020, assuming that the health care system will continue to be dominated...

Aiming Higher: Advancing Public Social Insurance for Long-term Care to Meet the Global Aging Challenge; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan”

Globally, aging populations are driving the demand for long-term care (LTC) services for a growing number of older people with disabilities or chronic illnesses. A key challenge for policy-makers in all countries is to find a comprehensive solution to financing LTC services to make them widely accessible, affordable, and equitable for all in need. In this commentary, we...

Resilience to Meet the Challenge of Addiction

Acute and chronic stress-related mechanisms play an important role in the development of addiction and its chronic, relapsing nature. Multisystem adaptations in brain, body, behavioral, and social function may contribute to a dysregulated physiological state that is maintained beyond the homeostatic range. In addition, chronic abuse of substances leads to an altered set point across multiple sy...

Are you ready to meet the challenge?

Diagnosing lung cancer in the 21st century: are we ready to meet the challenge of individualized care?

BACKGROUND Histologic and molecular subtyping have become increasingly important as predictors of treatment benefit in lung cancer. The objective of the present study was to determine whether current diagnostic approaches provide adequate tissue to allow for individualized treatment decisions. METHODS Our retrospective cohort study of new lung cancer patients seen at an academic centre betwee...