Best Practices
Best Practices
Huddling for High-Performing Teams
In short team huddles, trainees and PACT teamlets meet to coordinate care and identify ways to improve team processes under the guidance of...
Roundtable
Treatment and Management of Patients With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
The following is a lightly edited manuscript of a teleconference discussion on treating patients with non -small cell lung cancer in the VHA.
Clinical Review
Transgender Care in the Primary Care Setting: A Review of Guidelines and Literature
For patients who desire transgender care, providers must use appropriate language, know the basics of cross-sex hormone therapy, and understand...
Clinical Review
Screening and Treating Hepatitis C in the VA: Achieving Excellence Using Lean and System Redesign
The national effort to redesign care using Lean management strategies, develop local and regional teams, and to centralize support allowed VA to...
Best Practices
Treatment and Management of Patients With Prostate Cancer
The following is a lightly edited manuscript of a teleconference discussion on treating patients with localized prostate cancer in the VHA.
Best Practices
Distress Screening and Management in an Outpatient VA Cancer Clinic: A Pilot Project Involving Ambulatory Patients Across the Disease Trajectory
Screening all patients for distress addressed practical, psychosocial, physical, and spiritual needs does not seem to be burdensome for patients...
Best Practices
Ketogenic Diets and Cancer: Emerging Evidence
Combining a ketogenic diet with standard chemotherapeutic and radiotherapeutic options may help improve tumor response, although more research is...
Best Practices
Treatment and Management of Multiple Myeloma
A panel discussion of the challenges and standards of care for managing patients with multiple myeloma.
Best Practices
Timeliness of Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
Most patients received timely histopathologic confirmation of diagnosis, but surgery candidates faced significant delays in care in this quality...
Best Practices
A Road Map for Creating a CPRS Template for a Cancer Survivorship Treatment Summary and Care Plan
An electronic medical record template has streamlined patient management
for a cancer survivorship program.