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Resources American Society of Clinical Oncology Practice Guidelines. American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer: Cancer Care Guidelines Repository Education Network to Advance Cancer Clinical Trials. National Cancer Institute. Cancer Trends Progress Report – 2007 Update. NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology™. Oncology by OncologySTAT Putting Evidence Into Practice: Improving Oncology Patient Outcomes Now, the ONS PEP resources have been collected into one volume. Not only does this new book include the updated PEP resources (volumes 1-4), but you will gain access to assessment and measurement tools as well as ideas for patient care and organizational use and case studies to illustrate the application of tools.
www.asco.org/guidelines
Clinical practice guidelines serve as a guide for doctors and outline appropriate methods of treatment and care. Guidelines can address specific clinical situations (disease-oriented) or use of approved medical products, procedures, or tests (modality-oriented). Using the best available evidence, ASCO expert panels identify and develop practice recommendations for specific areas of cancer care that would benefit from the availability of practice guidelines. The criteria for selecting topics for guidelines or technology assessments includes significance of clinical or economic importance; presence of variations in patterns of, or access to care; availability of suitable data; and ethical considerations.
http://www.facs.org/cancer/coc/cocpracguide.html
Care guidelines provide a general template for quality, cost-effective management of the cancer patient. Such guidelines may be in relation to screening, genetic counseling, early diagnosis, and prevention strategies as well as treatment and follow up of the cancer patient. The Commission on Cancer does not endorse any specific guideline, but has elected to make guidelines from various national organizations available through this Web site for informational purposes only.
http://www.enacct.org
ENACCT is the only national organization devoted solely to identifying, implementing and evaluating innovative community-centered approaches to cancer clinical trials education.
December 2007.
http://progressreport.cancer.gov
For treatments already in use, trends in patterns of care have been examined for major cancers including breast, colorectal, prostate, and ovarian cancers. Patterns of care at specific points in time, generally in relationship to the release of new guidance on care, have been documented for additional cancers, including bladder, cervical, endometrial, head and neck, non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, and melanoma. These studies have been supported through the NCI Patterns of Care/Quality of Care and Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End-Results (SEER)-Medicare projects.
http://www.nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/f_guidelines.asp
The NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology™ – the recognized standard for clinical policy in oncology – are the most comprehensive and most frequently updated clinical practice guidelines available in any area of Medicine. Covering 97 percent of all patients with cancer and updated on a continual basis, the NCCN Guidelines are developed through an explicit review of the evidence integrated with expert medical judgment by multidisciplinary panels from NCCN Member Institutions. Treatment recommendations are specific and are implemented through performance measurement. NCCN Guidelines Panels address cancer detection, prevention and risk reduction, workup and diagnosis, treatment and supportive care.
The OncologySTAT web site promotes state-of-the-art cancer care by providing oncology professionals with instant access to the highest-quality news, expert opinion, and clinical information, including free full-text articles from over 100 Elsevier cancer-related journals. It also offers CME programs for cancer care professionals.
http://ons.org/publications
Since 2006, the highly-successful ONS Putting Evidence Into Practice (PEP) cards have helped thousands of oncology nurses worldwide implement evidence-based interventions into their practice, improving nursing-sensitive patient outcomes.
