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Implementation of a Survivorship Care Plan Program in a Community-Based Oncology Clinic
There is conflicting evidence from the small number of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that have assessed the benefit of survivorship care plans (SCPs) on improving patient outcomes. Yet, published quasi-experimental and descriptive studies provide preliminary evidence suggesting that using surv...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7517781/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33391851 http://dx.doi.org/10.6004/jadpro.2019.10.7.3 |
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author | Soulia, Stephanie L. Duffy, Elizabeth A. Morley, Kimberly A. Smith, Ellen M. L. |
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description | There is conflicting evidence from the small number of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that have assessed the benefit of survivorship care plans (SCPs) on improving patient outcomes. Yet, published quasi-experimental and descriptive studies provide preliminary evidence suggesting that using survivorship care plans in practice may improve patient knowledge, decrease worry and anxiety, and lead to patient and primary care physician satisfaction. Given the conflicting evidence and the paucity of RCTs, further research is needed to more fully explore the effect of SCP on patient outcomes. To address this knowledge gap, an SCP program was implemented in a community-based oncology clinic and used quality improvement methodology to assess the effect on patient knowledge of diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up, and to understand patients’ satisfaction with the current SCP program. A total of 30 cancer patients were recruited in Southeast Michigan to participate in an SCP quality improvement project and completed surveys to evaluate the SCP program. Data were collected between December 2017 and March 2018. We observed a statistically significant (p = .028) difference between pre- and postintervention (survivorship care plan visit) knowledge scores about cancer diagnosis, treatment received, and follow-up recommendations. Moreover, participants were satisfied with the survivorship care plan and visit. |
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spelling | pubmed-75177812020-12-31 Implementation of a Survivorship Care Plan Program in a Community-Based Oncology Clinic Soulia, Stephanie L. Duffy, Elizabeth A. Morley, Kimberly A. Smith, Ellen M. L. J Adv Pract Oncol Quality Improvement There is conflicting evidence from the small number of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that have assessed the benefit of survivorship care plans (SCPs) on improving patient outcomes. Yet, published quasi-experimental and descriptive studies provide preliminary evidence suggesting that using survivorship care plans in practice may improve patient knowledge, decrease worry and anxiety, and lead to patient and primary care physician satisfaction. Given the conflicting evidence and the paucity of RCTs, further research is needed to more fully explore the effect of SCP on patient outcomes. To address this knowledge gap, an SCP program was implemented in a community-based oncology clinic and used quality improvement methodology to assess the effect on patient knowledge of diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up, and to understand patients’ satisfaction with the current SCP program. A total of 30 cancer patients were recruited in Southeast Michigan to participate in an SCP quality improvement project and completed surveys to evaluate the SCP program. Data were collected between December 2017 and March 2018. We observed a statistically significant (p = .028) difference between pre- and postintervention (survivorship care plan visit) knowledge scores about cancer diagnosis, treatment received, and follow-up recommendations. Moreover, participants were satisfied with the survivorship care plan and visit. Harborside Press LLC 2019 2019-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7517781/ /pubmed/33391851 http://dx.doi.org/10.6004/jadpro.2019.10.7.3 Text en © 2019 Harborside™ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Non-Derivative License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial and non-derivative use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Quality Improvement Soulia, Stephanie L. Duffy, Elizabeth A. Morley, Kimberly A. Smith, Ellen M. L. Implementation of a Survivorship Care Plan Program in a Community-Based Oncology Clinic |
title | Implementation of a Survivorship Care Plan Program in a Community-Based Oncology Clinic |
title_full | Implementation of a Survivorship Care Plan Program in a Community-Based Oncology Clinic |
title_fullStr | Implementation of a Survivorship Care Plan Program in a Community-Based Oncology Clinic |
title_full_unstemmed | Implementation of a Survivorship Care Plan Program in a Community-Based Oncology Clinic |
title_short | Implementation of a Survivorship Care Plan Program in a Community-Based Oncology Clinic |
title_sort | implementation of a survivorship care plan program in a community-based oncology clinic |
topic | Quality Improvement |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7517781/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33391851 http://dx.doi.org/10.6004/jadpro.2019.10.7.3 |
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