The Case for Clinical Pathways in Radiation Oncology

The Case for Clinical Pathways in Radiation Oncology

We read the article by Dr. Louis Potters et al. with great interest and we laud their team’s effort to standardize care around evidencedbased clinical pathways. In addition to improving safety and bending the cost curve, standardizing clinical practice around expert clinical pathways has several additional benefits which we would like to highlight. First, there is a growing body of literature f...

the test for adverse selection in life insurance market: the case of mellat insurance company

انتخاب نامساعد یکی از مشکلات اساسی در صنعت بیمه است. که ابتدا در سال 1960، توسط روتشیلد واستیگلیتز مورد بحث ومطالعه قرار گرفت ازآن موقع تاکنون بسیاری از پژوهشگران مدل های مختلفی را برای تجزیه و تحلیل تقاضا برای صنعت بیمه عمر که تماما ناشی از عدم قطعیت در این صنعت میباشد انجام داده اند .وهدف از آن پیدا کردن شرایطی است که تحت آن شرایط انتخاب یا کنار گذاشتن یک بیمه گزار به نفع و یا زیان شرکت بیمه ...

American Society of Clinical Oncology Criteria for High-Quality Clinical Pathways in Oncology.

Clinical Concerns and Strategies in Radiation Oncology

Current concepts in clinical radiation oncology

Based on its potent capacity to induce tumor cell death and to abrogate clonogenic survival, radiotherapy is a key part of multimodal cancer treatment approaches. Numerous clinical trials have documented the clear correlation between improved local control and increased overall survival. However, despite all progress, the efficacy of radiation-based treatment approaches is still limited by diff...