WS No. 10 Patterns of Care DX Year 2007

护理模式研究的目标是：1)描述辅助治疗的使用，这将得到治疗医生的验证；2)描述不同社区的实践模式；3)更全面地描述手术作为治疗的使用；4)比较治疗模式(手术、放射治疗、化疗、激素治疗)随时间以及年龄和种族/民族的变化；5)描述合并疾病对治疗的影响；6)描述医院特征(即盈利与非盈利、教学与非教学、床位大小等)。在美国不同的地理区域。进行护理模式研究是为了满足国会指令(根据公法100-607，SEC.413(A)(2)(C)(1988年11月4日通过)提交给国家癌症研究所，以“评估将最先进的癌症治疗纳入临床实践的情况以及癌症患者接受这种治疗的程度，并将评估的结果纳入两年一次的报告”。为了选择癌症地点，癌症控制和人口科学司一直在与癌症治疗司密切合作。今年的模式护理(POC)研究将调查最先进的治疗小细胞肺癌、急性髓系白血病、多发性骨髓瘤和肝细胞癌的方法。

The objectives of the Patterns of Care Study are to: 1) describe the use of adjuvant therapy, which will be verified with the treating physician; 2) characterize the practice patterns in different communities; 3) describe more completely the use of surgery as treatment; 4) compare the patterns of treatment (surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, hormonal therapy) over time and by age and race/ethnicity; 5) describe the effect of co-morbid conditions on treatment, and 6) describe treatment by hospital characteristics (i.e., profit vs. not for profit, teaching vs. non-teaching, bed size, etc.) in different geographic areas of the United States. Patterns of Care Studies are conducted to satisfy a Congressional directive (under Public Law 100-607, Sec. 413 (a)(2)(C) adopted November 4, 1988) to the National Cancer Institute to ¿assess the incorporation of state-of-the-art cancer treatments into clinical practice and the extent to which cancer patients receive such treatments and include the results of such assessment in the biennial reports¿¿. To select the cancers sites the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences has been working closely with the Division of Cancer Treatment. This year's Pattern's of Care (POC) Study will investigate state-of-the-art therapies for small cell lung cancer, acute myeloid leukemia, multiple myeloma, and hepatocellular carcinoma.