Moving survivorship care plans forward: Focus on care coordination Journal Article
| Authors: | Salz, T.; Baxi, S. |
| Article Title: | Moving survivorship care plans forward: Focus on care coordination |
| Abstract: | After completing treatment for cancer, the coordination of oncology and primary care presents a challenge for cancer survivors. Many survivors need continued oncology follow-up, and all survivors require primary care. Coordinating the shared care of a cancer survivor, or facilitating an informed handoff from oncology to primary care, is essential for cancer survivors. Survivorship care plans are personalized documents that summarize cancer treatment and outline a plan of recommended ongoing care, with the goal of facilitating the coordination of post-treatment care. Despite their face validity, five trials have failed to demonstrate the effectiveness of survivorship care plans. We posit that these existing trials have critical shortcomings and do not adequately address whether survivorship care plans improve care coordination. Moving forward, we propose four criteria for future trials of survivorship care plans: focusing on high-needs survivor populations, tailoring the survivorship care plan to the care setting, facilitating implementation of the survivorship care plan in clinical practice, and selecting appropriate trial outcomes to assess care coordination. When trials meet these criteria, we can finally assess whether survivorship care plans help cancer survivors receive optimal oncology and primary care. © 2016 The Authors. Cancer Medicine published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
| Keywords: | cancer survival; treatment response; patient satisfaction; note; cancer patient; outcome assessment; clinical practice; evidence based medicine; quality of life; practice guideline; oncology; cancer survivor; health care quality; patient care; population research; consensus development; medical care; primary medical care; primary care; patient care planning; clinical trials; cancer survivors; health care need; care coordination; human; priority journal |
| Journal Title: | Cancer Medicine |
| Volume: | 5 |
| Issue: | 7 |
| ISSN: | 2045-7634 |
| Publisher: | Wiley Blackwell |
| Date Published: | 2016-07-01 |
| Start Page: | 1717 |
| End Page: | 1722 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1002/cam4.733 |
| PUBMED: | 27075650 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
| PMCID: | PMC4944899 |
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| Notes: | Note -- Export Date: 3 January 2017 -- Source: Scopus |
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