Hospice News September 6, 2024
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has developed recommendations for integrating health equity into future clinical practice guidelines for palliative care.
The recommendations include proliferating community partnerships to reach underserved populations, providing guideline development panelists with training on implicit bias and ensuring that future revisions include health equity measures.
“The ASCO clinical practice guidelines are multidisciplinary expert initiatives that provide clinicians with evidence-based recommendations,” the recommendation authors wrote. “ASCO has long expressed a commitment to health equity, and guidelines serve the implicit function of optimizing care, services and treatment options for all people with cancer and those who care for them. Yet, disparities persist across the trajectory of cancer and in multiple domains of clinical care, education, and research,...
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