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March 3, 2016

How Defaults Can be Used to Improve Cancer Care

Source: Medscape, March 3, 2016 An article published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, authored by Eric Ojerholm, Scott Halpern and Justin Bekelman, explores what defaults are, why they work, and how they could be used to improve quality and value in oncology. The article includes three examples in which a default option could be useful clinically.

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