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Project Safe Conduct: Collaborative Interagency Program to Improve End-of-Life Care for Cancer Patients and Their Families

Case Western Reserve University, in partnership with Hospice of the Western Reserve and the Ireland Cancer Center at University Hospital, created Project Safe Conduct.

Grant Results Sidebars 11/20/2009 

A Story From Project Safe Conduct: Collaborative Interagency Program to Improve End-of-Life Care for Cancer Patients and Their Families

A large portion of the Safe Conduct team's efforts takes the form of gentle and persistent probing for problems that patients choose to keep to themselves.

Grant Results Sidebars 11/20/2009 

Researchers Identify Four Key Areas to Reduce Health Care Disparities and Save Lives of African Americans and Hispanics

Researchers at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry estimated the impact that eliminating disparities in health care between racial and ethnic minorities and whites would have on minority health.

Grant Results Reports 10/06/2009 

Medication Errors Among Adults and Children With Cancer in the Outpatient Setting

This article examined medication errors among cancer outpatients at several oncology clinics. Adults and children with cancer receive complex medication regimes and the frequency of medication errors in this health care setting is not well known.

Published In: Journal of Clinical Oncology

Journal articles 03/11/2009 

National Cancer Pain Initiative Resource Center Supports State-Level Initiatives as They Implement Pain Management Practices

Faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health established the Resource Center, to support the growth and development of State Pain Initiatives.

Grant Results Reports 01/28/2009 

Sexual Orientation and Testing for Prostate and Colorectal Cancers Among Men in California

This article examines rates of colorectal and prostate cancer testing among heterosexual and gay/bisexual men.

Published In: Medical Care

Journal articles 01/16/2009 

Medicare's Future: Cancer Care

This paper proposes a national initiative for Medicare patients with cancer. New legislative authority will be needed for comparative effectiveness research, quality measurement and payment reforms in Medicare.

Published In: Health Affairs

Journal articles 01/06/2009 

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Awards $8.6-Million Grant to Kaiser Permanente to Develop Largest, Most Diverse U.S. Biobank

The Pioneer Portfolio has awarded $8.6 million to develop a biobank to help reveal environmental and genetic factors behind diseases.

News releases 12/17/2008 

Chromosomal Fragile Sites: The Relationship with Hepatitis B Virus and Liver Cancers

The Problem: How cancer develops and progresses is one of medicine's most challenging areas of research. What could the Hepatitis B virus and its link to liver cancer reveal about the development, growth and spread of cancer?Grantee...

Grantee profiles 09/30/2008 

Massage Therapy Versus Simple Touch to Improve Pain and Mood in Patients with Advanced Cancer

This study compares the use of massage therapy to relieve pain and other symptoms to simple touch therapy for terminally ill individuals.

Published In: Annals of Internal Medicine

Journal articles 09/24/2008 

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