Quality Improvement Initiative Reveals Gaps Between Oncology Providers, Patients in Views of Costs, Risk of Treatments
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on January 12, 2023
How can health systems close disparities in care? A quality improvement (QI) initiative launched in 2020 sought to examine this question in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (R/R MM). The first round of data was collected from 2 large oncology groups in academic settings and focused on patient concerns. In the second phase, the effort drew additional participants from 4 community-based oncology practices, “to greater evaluate disparities with electronic medical records [EMR] audits and team-based audit feedback sessions, to identify factors which could enhance more equitable care,” according to an abstract presented during the . . .
