Improving serious illness communication for patients with advanced cancer

Improving serious illness communication for patients with advanced cancer

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220720193717.htm

As the first part of a larger initiative across Dartmouth Cancer Center, a broad team of clinician-researchers, clinical partners, data scientists and even a patient partner have implemented a quality improvement project that was able to increase the occurrence and documentation of these important conversations in two disease-specific medical oncology clinics. Over the 18-month study period, the teams increased their baseline documentation rate from 0% to 70%, or 43 of 63 eligible patients.

Results of the project, "Interdisciplinary Approach and Patient/Family Partners to Improve Serious Illness Conversations in Outpatient Oncology," are newly published in JCO Oncology Practice, an American Society of Clinical Oncology journal.

Improving serious illness communication for patients with advanced cancer

Jul 24, 2022, 10:16pm UTC
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220720193717.htm > As the first part of a larger initiative across Dartmouth Cancer Center, a broad team of clinician-researchers, clinical partners, data scientists and even a patient partner have implemented a quality improvement project that was able to increase the occurrence and documentation of these important conversations in two disease-specific medical oncology clinics. Over the 18-month study period, the teams increased their baseline documentation rate from 0% to 70%, or 43 of 63 eligible patients. > Results of the project, "Interdisciplinary Approach and Patient/Family Partners to Improve Serious Illness Conversations in Outpatient Oncology," are newly published in JCO Oncology Practice, an American Society of Clinical Oncology journal.