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Feasibility of a quality improvement strategy integrating psychosocial care into 28 medical cancer centers (HuCare project)
- Source :
- Supportive Care in Cancer. 24:147-155
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015.
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Abstract
- This study examines the development and feasibility of a quality improvement strategy for the translation of evidence-based psychosocial care into clinical practice. The project involved all staff (oncologists, psychologists, and nurses) of the participating centers. Recommendations concerned: improvement of clinician communication skills; use of a patient question prompt list; assignment of a specialist nurse to each patient; screening for psychological distress and social needs; opportunity to attend a Point of Information and Support. The implementation strategy hinged on context analysis and problem solving. Four to six visits were held in each center by the project team to assist staff in identifying obstacles, finding solutions, and strengthening motivation. The primary variable was the adherence percentage to the recommendations (proportion of subjects receiving each intervention). The number of centers that failed to reach the objective was also reported (adherence percentage
- Subjects :
- Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Quality management
media_common.quotation_subject
Psychological intervention
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Promotion (rank)
Nursing
Neoplasms
Intervention (counseling)
Humans
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
media_common
business.industry
Communication
Nursing research
Middle Aged
Quality Improvement
Project team
Psychotherapy
Context analysis
Oncology
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Family medicine
Feasibility Studies
Female
business
Psychosocial
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14337339 and 09414355
- Volume :
- 24
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Supportive Care in Cancer
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4f07a953789eae6004c05cf46866df23