Researchers from New Century Health and Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island presented findings from their efforts to increase adoption of hypofractionation in breast cancer patients at the National Comprehensive Cancer Care Network conference, on March 31.
University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center researchers have developed a novel prompt, or ‘nudge,’ embedded in the electronic health record that flags, for treating surgeons, older patients with early-stage breast cancer who may be at risk for unnecessary lymph node surgery.
