Quality and Outcomes in Cancer Care Research Program

Program Leaders: Benjamin F. Crabtree, PhD and Sharon Manne, PhD

Overall Goals:

To understand the epidemiological, organizational, social, and behavioral factors that underlie the gap between the scientific evidence and actual outcomes in cancer care and to develop and disseminate evidence-based interventions to enhance cancer related services.

Specific Aims:

• Understand institutional, clinical, socioeconomic and behavioral factors that lead to variability in outcomes when cancer care is administered in community and primary care settings, and then use this knowledge to mitigate discrepancies through the design and implementation of intervention strategies that improve quality of cancer prevention, physician and patient compliance, and early detection in these settings.
• Understand genetic, socioeconomic, and behavioral factors that contribute to disparate outcomes in care treatment, and then use this knowledge design and implement personalized and equitable approaches to the delivery of cancer care.
• Understand and develop interventions to mitigate behavioral, cultural and socioeconomic factors and improve outcomes as well as reduce discrepancies in community based health care delivery and patient counseling that negatively impact the health and quality of life in patients, cancer survivors, and their family members.

Our expectation is that by understanding the factors underlying undesirable outcomes in cancer related care, it will be possible to develop, validate, and implement innovative, knowledge-based practice and community-based intervention strategies for optimizing cancer care and outcomes.

CALENDAR: Research Program Meetings, Distinguished Lecture Series, and other events for CINJ Members

The Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey