Multilevel Intervention Research: Lessons Learned and Pathways Forward

Clinical science is making significant strides and changing how clinicians care for patients along the entire cancer care continuum. These scientific advances are applied within an increasingly com plex social, organizational, and environmental context. Current approaches to intervention research may be insufficient to address this complexity. It is essential that we rethink the manner and mode of interventions along the care continuum and their implications for affecting the quality, cost, and outcomes of the care being provided. The previous 12 chapters in this monograph have attempted to fill this need by illuminating and evaluating the role of multilevel intervention (MLI) research in cancer care delivery. These chapters were commissioned for this monograph either in preparation for