"What has been missing is the patient's perspective," says one industry consultant. The future of clinical pathways is patient-centric: an approach that balances the long-standing focus on ...

Despite advances in clinical cancer care, cancer survivors frequently report a range of persisting issues, unmet needs, and concerns that limit their ability to participate in life roles and reduce ...

Dawn Holcombe's recent article in Journal of Oncology Practice/The American Journal of Managed Care joint issue, entitled Oncology Managed Programs for Payers and Physicians: Evaluating Current Models ...

The complexity of cancer care and unwarranted variation in treatment can serve as a barrier to improving care quality. As a result, health systems are increasingly turning to clinical pathways as a ...

Steven Peskin, MD, MBA, FACP: We have not embraced clinical pathways in the way that we’re saying that we’re working with a particular third-party clinical pathway company. What we are doing is ...

Reducing drug spend is one of the greatest challenges for practices participating in the Oncology Care Model (OCM). Evidence-based clinical pathways have the potential to decrease drug spend while ...

A critical or clinical pathway defines the optimal care process, sequencing and timing of interventions by doctors, nurses and other health care professionals for a particular diagnosis or procedure.

In the realm of oncology, the advent of clinical pathways has gained substantial traction in the past two decades as the increasing cost and complexity of cancer care demanded structured, ...

During embryogenesis, multiple developmental signaling pathways control the biological processes that form and shape cells, tissues, and organs. These pathways tightly regulate behaviors and elicit ...