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Improving Palliative Care for Cancer: Summary and Recommendations (2001)

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Suggested Citation:"Acronyms and Abbreviations." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2001. Improving Palliative Care for Cancer: Summary and Recommendations. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10147.
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Acronyms and Abbreviations

ACS American Cancer Society

AHRQ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

ASCO American Society of Clinical Oncology

CIS Cancer Information Service

DCTD Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis

HCFA Health Care Financing Administration

HELP Hospitalized Elderly Longitudinal Project

HRSA Health Resources and Services Administration

IOM Institute of Medicine

JCAHO Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

MDS Minimum Data Set

MedPAC Medicare Payment Advisory Commission

NCCN National Comprehensive Cancer Network

NCI National Cancer Institute

NCPB National Cancer Policy Board

NIAID National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Suggested Citation:"Acronyms and Abbreviations." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2001. Improving Palliative Care for Cancer: Summary and Recommendations. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10147.
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NIH National Institutes of Health

NINR National Institute of Nursing Research

NMFBS National Mortality Followback Survey

PCP President's Cancer Panel

PDIA Project on Death in America

PDQ Physician Data Query

RWJF Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

SEER Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program

SUPPORT Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment

VA Department of Veterans Affairs

WHO World Health Organization

Suggested Citation:"Acronyms and Abbreviations." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2001. Improving Palliative Care for Cancer: Summary and Recommendations. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10147.
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Suggested Citation:"Acronyms and Abbreviations." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2001. Improving Palliative Care for Cancer: Summary and Recommendations. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10147.
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It is innately human to comfort and provide care to those suffering from cancer, particularly those close to death. Yet what seems self-evident at an individual, personal level has, by and large, not guided policy at the level of institutions in this country. There is no argument that palliative care should be integrated into cancer care from diagnosis to death. But significant barriers-attitudinal, behavioral, economic, educational, and legal-still limit access to care for a large proportion of those dying from cancer, and in spite of tremendous scientific opportunities for medical progress against all the major symptoms associated with cancer and cancer death, public research institutions have not responded. In accepting a single-minded focus on research toward cure, we have inadvertently devalued the critical need to care for and support patients with advanced disease, and their families.

This report builds on and takes forward an agenda set out by the 1997 IOM report Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life, which came at a time when leaders in palliative care and related fields had already begun to air issues surrounding care of the dying. That report identified significant gaps in knowledge about care at the end of life and the need for serious attention from biomedical, social science, and health services researchers. Most importantly, it recognized that the impediments to good care could be identified and potentially remedied. The report itself catalyzed further public involvement in specific initiatives-mostly pilot and demonstration projects and programs funded by the nonprofit foundation community, which are now coming to fruition.

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