Practice Management News

DENVER — Providers at Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center have developed a successful shared medical appointment model to deliver lifestyle medicine counseling to cancer survivors.

Text-based e-triage can select individuals for a fast-track process that allows them to proceed directly to infusion, saving as much as 66 minutes total care time, according to a study presented at ASCO Quality Care Symposium.

Although the percentage of female principal investigators in clinical trials has increased in recent years, gender underrepresentation continued to persist, according to a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

DENVER – The creators of a 7-part webinar series sought to overcome barriers to integrating lifestyle medicine into oncology practice.

Oncologists in the U.S. reported a worsening of burnout and lower satisfaction with work-life balance over the last decade, according to a study presented at ASCO Quality Care Symposium.

Most institutions at leading U.S. medical centers had lactation-support policies in place, according to a research letter published in JAMA Network Open.

Every October, there are pink ribbons everywhere for breast cancer awareness month.

Health care workers face an escalating mental health crisis that is made worse by increased harassment, according to results from a new CDC Vital Signs report.

An intervention consisting of electronic health record reminders and patient outreach improved follow-up completion of overdue abnormal cancer screening results, a study in JAMA Network Open showed.

Camille Ragin, PhD, MPH, has been named chair of the Minorities in Cancer Research Council for the American Association for Cancer Research.