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Policy, Guidelines, and Disparities. Peter B. Bach, MD, MAPP Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center bachp@mskcc.org. Overview. The goal of practice guidelines is to: Improve the quality of care? Manage care? Save money? Monitor the quality of care? Reduce disparities?
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Policy, Guidelines, and Disparities Peter B. Bach, MD, MAPP Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center bachp@mskcc.org
Overview • The goal of practice guidelines is to: • Improve the quality of care? • Manage care? • Save money? • Monitor the quality of care? • Reduce disparities? • Give academics (with weird skills) something to do?
Improve care quality • Underlying assumption: care is sub-standard • Practice guidelines used broadly would raise average level • Have to assume that deviations from guidelines net harmful • As opposed to important personalization • Clinical decision support can have a guidelines background
Manage care (oncology example) • Pathways tell doctors which treatments to use in common conditions • Mostly payer contracts linked to pathways ask for 80% adherence
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