A Foundation for Evidence-Driven Practice

A Foundation for Evidence-Driven Practice

A Rapid Learning System for Cancer Care: Workshop Summary

  • Author: Patlak, Margie; Murphy, Sharon
  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309151269
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309151276
  • eISBN Epub: 9780309157476
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2010
  • Month: July
  • Pages: 125
  • DDC: 616
  • Language: English

The IOM's National Cancer Policy Forum held a workshop October 5-6, 2009, to examine how to apply the concept of a 'rapid learning health system' to the problem of cancer. This document summarizes the workshop.

  • FrontMatter
  • Reviewers
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Overview
  • 3 Basic Elements and Building Blocks of a RLHS for Cancer
  • 4 A Private RLHS—Kaiser Permanente
  • 5 Patient-Driven Rapid Learning Systems
  • 6 Challenges and Opportunities
  • 7 The Federal Challenge of Responding to the Need for a RLHS
  • 8 Summary
  • References
  • Acronyms
  • Appendix A: Workshop Agenda
  • Appendix B: Speaker and Moderator Biographies

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