Coordinating Cancer Care

Coordinating care and treatment for cancer patients.

Survival following a diagnosis of cancer is contingent upon an interplay of factors, some non-modifiable (e.g., age, sex, genetics) and some modifiable (e.g., volitional choices) but the majority determined by circumstance (personal, social, health system context and capacity, and health policy). Accordingly, mortality and survival rates vary considerably as a function of geography, opportunity...

Coordinating cancer care: patient and practice management processes among surgeons who treat breast cancer.

OBJECTIVES The Institute of Medicine has called for more coordinated cancer care models that correspond to initiatives led by cancer providers and professional organizations. These initiatives parallel those underway to integrate the management of patients with chronic conditions. METHODS We developed 5 breast cancer patient and practice management process measures based on the Chronic Care M...

Coordinating care: a major (unreimbursed) task of primary care.

For several decades, first-contact care, continuity of care, comprehensive care, and coordinated care have been core attributes of primary care (1). Of these features, perhaps the most problem-ridden is the task of coordinating the care of patients among multiple entities beyond the primary care practice, that is, specialists, ancillary services, pharmacies, hospitals, and home care agencies. S...

Coordinating Care for Children with Chronic Conditions in Primary Care

Whole Child Care: Coordinating Support to Families.

Edward L. Schor, MD A decade before the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published its first policy statement on the medical home,1 Stein and Jessop began publishing their work on generic noncategorical dimensions and approaches to pediatric chronic illness. Their thesis was simply that children with various chronic conditions had needs more in common than different.2 The needs they shared ...