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Communication Skills Training for Healthcare Professionals Working With People Who Have Cancer
Read this review from The Cochrane Collaboration.
New Resource: eLearning Modules on Implementation of EBPs
The Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health has launched e-learning modules to support capacity building on how to implement evidence-based practices in behavioural healthcare.
CRN-CCRC Work Retreat 2013
Researchers within the CRN-CCRC met February 24-28 for the 5th annual meeting in La Jolla, CA. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss, draft, and eventually create products based on five years of research within the Center. There was some time for fun as well. Read more about the meeting
Pink Ribbon Survivors Network
The Pink Ribbon Survivors Network brings together cancer professionals (physicians, nurses, social workers and others), primary care physicians, breast cancer survivors, and community scholars to address the needs of breast cancer survivors and educate the professionals that care for them.
New App: Stories from Breast Cancer Survivors
Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis have launched Living Proof, a new iPad and iPhone app full of stories from African American breast cancer survivors. It's based on a decade of research, free, and easy to use. Learn more about this app.
Cancer Research Network Publishes Article in Journal of Cancer Survivorship
The article titled, Cancer Research Network: Using Integrated Healthcare Delivery Systems as Platforms for Cancer Survivorship Research, can be read here.
CRN-CCRC is on Twitter!
Follow us at twitter.com/CRNCCRC.
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8th May 2013
The elements for great care
If you have not yet read the reflection by David Gustafson in the "A Piece of Mind" section of JAMA from January 16 this year, please do yourself a favor and look this piece up!
Dave Gustafson - a... read more
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22nd April 2013
The Importance of Blogging
NPR had a story about a month ago on cancer patients who blog about their illness. In a previous post (August 14, 2012), I wrote about a young woman who was candidly blogging... read more
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28th March 2013
What should future e-health interventions look like according to Gary Kreps
I had the great fortune to present with some lead figures of e-health research last week at the SBM conference. The panel insluded Gary Kreps as the moderator. If you happen not to know Dr. Kreps - here is a brief bio:
Gary L. Kreps (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is a University Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, VA. He also holds a joint faculty appoi... read more
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Rapid, Responsive, Relevant (R3) Research: A Call for a Rapid Learning Health Research Enterprise
Read this article from Clinical Translational Medicine.
An Oncology Nurse Navigator Program Designed to Eliminate Gaps in Early Cancer Care
Click here to read the advanced print exclusive article.
Research Funds for Provocative Questions Now Available
Letter of intent due by May 20, 2013, with applications due by June 20, 2013. Learn more
The Problem With Pink: Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer
Read the article from The New York Times.
"Doctors Firing Back at Patients' Online Critiques"
Click here to read this report from The Boston Globe.
Study Shows Importance of Social Networks and Reduced Breast Cancer Mortality
Read the article from Breast Cancer Research and Treatment.
"A Plan To Fix Cancer Care"
This article from the New York Times discusses the current state of cancer care and the five major changes that need to occur.
CRN Announces 2013 Call for Developmental and Pilot Project Applications
The CRN Developmental and Pilot Projects Program funds one-year projects that are conducted in the CRN's integrated health care setting. The Pilot Projects Program is open to any researcher who is otherwise eligible to receive NIH funds. Read more on the pilot project announcement and the development project announcement.
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