Place of coordination of complex pathways in oncology by coordinating privates nurses

xlomafota13 shared this article with you from Inoreader Place of coordination of complex pathways in oncology by coordinating privates nurses Via Association française pour l'étude du cancer Bull Cancer. 2021 May 25:S0007-4551(21)00182-X. doi: 10.1016/j.bulcan.2021.03.016. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: The complexity of the hospital-city care pathway is a real challenge because of the lack of coordination and communication between many stakeholders. As part of a call for projects from the General Directorate of Healthcare Provision, an experiment involving private oncology coordinating nurses was developed to address this issue. To our knowledge, there is no evaluation so far of such a protocol . METHODS: This single-center retrospective study focused on data from the ONC'IDEC program between 2015 and 2018, where 28 private nurses provided a 24/7 hotline. The objective was to qualitatively assess the coordination of this system. The nature and number of calls, patient satisfaction and medico-economic parameters were assessed. RESULTS: More than a hundred patients (n=114) were included in this devi ce (mean age: 72 ± 12 years). The most frequent reasons for calls concerned the patient's general condition (35 %) and home treatment follow-ups (13 %) but also referrals to the primary doctor (4 %), which helped avoiding hospitalizations. The patients were satisfied with the experiment (overall score of 8.4/10). DISCUSSION: Thanks to the ONC'IDEC program, patients were able to benefit from more appropriate care through a privileged interlocutor by making their care pathway more fluid and avoiding hospitalizations. It would be interesting to confirm these results by means of a study with a higher level of evidence, by comparing this protocol to conventional hospital coordination. PMID:34049669 | DOI:10.1016/j.bulcan.2021.03.016 View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.