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- Title
Equitably improving outcomes for cancer survivors and supporting caregivers: A blueprint for care delivery, research, education, and policy.
- Authors
Alfano, Catherine M.; Leach, Corinne R.; Smith, Tenbroeck G.; Miller, Kim D.; Alcaraz, Kassandra I.; Cannady, Rachel S.; Wender, Richard C.; Brawley, Otis W.
- Abstract
Cancer care delivery is being shaped by growing numbers of cancer survivors coupled with provider shortages, rising costs of primary treatment and follow-up care, significant survivorship health disparities, increased reliance on informal caregivers, and the transition to value-based care. These factors create a compelling need to provide coordinated, comprehensive, personalized care for cancer survivors in ways that meet survivors' and caregivers' unique needs while minimizing the impact of provider shortages and controlling costs for health care systems, survivors, and families. The authors reviewed research identifying and addressing the needs of cancer survivors and caregivers and used this synthesis to create a set of critical priorities for care delivery, research, education, and policy to equitably improve survivor outcomes and support caregivers. Efforts are needed in 3 priority areas: 1) implementing routine assessment of survivors' needs and functioning and caregivers' needs; 2) facilitating personalized, tailored, information and referrals from diagnosis onward for both survivors and caregivers, shifting services from point of care to point of need wherever possible; and 3) disseminating and supporting the implementation of new care methods and interventions.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CANCER patients; HEALTH outcome assessment; CANCER treatment; QUALITY of life; TREATMENT effectiveness; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; CAREGIVERS; HEALTH services accessibility; HEALTH status indicators; EVALUATION of medical care; HEALTH policy; MEDICAL referrals; MEDICALLY underserved areas; MEDICAL research; NEEDS assessment; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; QUALITY assurance; EVIDENCE-based medicine; SOCIAL support; HEALTH equity; PATIENT-centered care; IMPACT of Event Scale
- Publication
CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2019, Vol 69, Issue 1, p35
- ISSN
0007-9235
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.3322/caac.21548