Building a Learning Health Care Culture: Lessons from Pediatric Oncology

Pediatric oncology is often held up as the model for learning healthcare systems to emulate. There is much truth—but also a few cautionary notes—in this view. This presentation will describe how pediatric oncology has created a learning healthcare culture, one on which other areas of pediatrics and medicine can build as they seek to improve both knowledge and care.

Presented by:

Steven Joffe, MD, MPH
Medical Ethics,University of Pennsylvania

Joint Lecture Series:

Children’s
Research Institute
&
Center for
Bioethics