Patient Education Management Archives – September 1, 2010
September 1, 2010
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Targeting the educational needs of cancer survivors takes many shapes
Clinical survivorship service is a new model of continuing care for cancer patients. The completion of treatment is not the end, and structured services are necessary to help a burgeoning population of cancer survivors deal with a multitude of issues that often are not addressed, says Marci Campbell, PhD, co-director of the Carolina Well Survivorship Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. -
Create a resource list for contacts
Health care institutions do not always have the resources with which to provide special services for cancer survivors. However, all can provide direction about how to obtain support and information beyond the walls of the medical center, whether out in the community or from national resources. -
Cancer survivorship care plans empower
At the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) Adult Survivorship Clinic in Boston, a nurse practitioner works with patients to develop a survivorship care plan. -
Environmental scan gives insight
To determine the state of survivorship across the United States and Canada, the Cancer Patient Education Network Survivorship Committee (CPEN) conducted an environmental scan in 2009 looking at the status of best practices at the institutions at which its members work. -
Oncology CMs guide patients through treatment
Capital BlueCross members who have been diagnosed with cancer are getting support during all phases of treatment through a new oncology case management program launched in the spring of 2010 by the Harrisburg, PA-based health plan. -
Initiatives reduce readmission rates
After two successful pilot projects aimed at reducing readmission rates, Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc. (CDPHP) has implemented a program aimed at ensuring that its Medicare Advantage members get the care they need after discharge to avoid a return trip to the hospital. -
Dementia patients' spouses at higher risk
Husbands or wives who care for spouses with dementia are six times more likely to develop the memory-impairing condition than those whose spouses don't have it, according to the results of a 12-year study led by Johns Hopkins, Utah State University, and Duke University.