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Treatment Plan and Summary Background Materials


Schrag, D. The Cancer Treatment Summary: Changing the Culture of Documentation to Facilitate High Quality Cancer Care
This commentary provides comprehensive background regarding the need for chemotherapy treatment plans and summaries and implementation strategies and challenges.

IOM Report, From Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivor: Lost in Transition
In this report, the IOM cancer survivorship committee recommends that each cancer patient receive a survivorship care plan.

Malin JL, Schneider EC, Epstein AM, Adams J, Emanuel EJ, Kahn KL. Results of the National Initiative for Cancer Care Quality: How Can We Improve the Quality of Cancer Care in the United States? J Clin Oncol. 2006 Feb 1;24(4):626-34.

Comprehensive Cancer Care Improvement Act
The Comprehensive Cancer Care Improvement Act (CCCIA) includes a number of proposals that would advance a system of integrated cancer care and improved communication between patients and their health care teams regarding treatment options and follow-up care. The Act would establish a new Medicare service for the development of: 1) a treatment plan at the beginning of primary therapy and communication of the plan to the patient, and 2) a cancer care summary and follow-up care plan at the end of primary therapy and communication of the plan to the patient.

Earle, C. Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail: Improving the Quality of Care with Survivorship Care Plans J Clin Oncol. 2006 Nov 10; 24(32): 5112-16.

Ganz P, Hahn E. Implementing a Survivorship Care Plan for Patients with Breast Cancer J Clin Oncol 2008 Feb 10; 26(5): 759-67.

Smith, T. Tell It Like It Is J Clin Oncol 2003 May 1; 21(9S): 12s-16s.

Hayes, D. Follow-up of Patients with Early Breast Cancer NEJM June 14; 24(356): 2505-13

ASCO's Library of Treatment Plans and Summaries Expands JOP Jan 2008: 31-36

Developing the Medical Oncology Treatment Plan and Summary JOP Mar 2006: 95-96

Jansen, J et al. Does Age Really Matter? Recall of Information Presented to Newly Referred Patients with Cancer  J Clin Oncol  2008 Oct

Cheung, W et al. Comparisons of Patient and Physician Expectations for Cancer Survivorship Care J Clin Oncol 2009 Mar

Del Giudice, M et al. Primary Care Physicians' Views of Routine Follow-Up Care of Cancer Survivors J Clin Oncol 2009 Apr





 
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