Ensuring quality cancer care through the oncology workforce : sustaining care in the 21st century ; workshop summary / National Cancer Policy Forum ; Margie Patlak and Laura Levit, rapporteurs ; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Patlak, Margie.

Levit, Laura A.

National Cancer Policy Forum (U.S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cancer--Treatment.

Cancer.

Medical personnel.

Health planning.

Physical Description:

xii, 82 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) predicts that by 2020, there will be an 81 percent increase in people living with or surviving cancer, but only a 14 percent increase in the number of practicing oncologists. As a result, there may be too few oncologists to meet the population's need for cancer care. To help address the challenges in overcoming this potential crisis of cancer care, the National Cancer Policy Forum of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) convened the workshop Ensuring Quality Cancer Care through the Oncology Workforce: Sustaining Care in the 21st Century in Washington, DC on October 20 and 21, 2008.

Contents:

Intro

Reviewers

Contents

Introduction

Supply and Demand in the Health Care Workforce

Supply and Demand in the Oncology Workforce

Solutions to the Oncology Workforce Shortage

Summary

References

Acronyms

Appendix A Workshop Agenda

Appendix B Workshop Speakers and Moderators.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-72).

ISBN:

9786612130298

9780309177566

0309177561

9781282130296

1282130293

9780309136723

0309136725

OCLC:

923280331