医学
指南
头颈部癌
端口(电路理论)
医疗保健
癌症
家庭医学
佣金
放射治疗
头颈部
普通外科
外科
内科学
病理
财务
经济增长
电气工程
经济
工程类
作者
Evan M. Graboyes,Michelle Chappell,Kelsey A. Duckett,Katherine R. Sterba,Chanita Hughes Halbert,Elizabeth G. Hill,Bhishamjit S. Chera,Jessica McCay,Sidharth V. Puram,Salma Ramadan,Vlad C. Sandulache,Russel Kahmke,Brian Nussenbaum,Anthony J. Alberg,Electra D. Paskett,Elizabeth Calhoun
出处
期刊:Journal of The National Comprehensive Cancer Network
日期:2023-12-01
卷期号:21 (12): 1251-1259.e5
标识
DOI:10.6004/jnccn.2023.7061
摘要
Aligned with the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology for Head and Neck Cancers, in November 2021 the Commission on Cancer approved initiation of postoperative radiation therapy (PORT) within 6 weeks of surgery for head and neck cancer (HNC) as its first and only HNC quality metric. Unfortunately, >50% of patients do not commence PORT within 6 weeks, and delays disproportionately burden racial and ethnic minority groups. Although patient navigation (PN) is a potential strategy to improve the delivery of timely, equitable, guideline-adherent PORT, the national landscape of PN for this aspect of care is unknown.From September through November 2022, we conducted a survey of health care organizations that participate in the American Cancer Society National Navigation Roundtable to understand the scope of PN for delivering timely, guideline-adherent PORT for patients with HNC.Of the 94 institutions that completed the survey, 89.4% (n=84) reported that at least part of their practice was dedicated to navigating patients with HNC. Sixty-eight percent of the institutions who reported navigating patients with HNC along the continuum (56/83) reported helping them begin PORT. One-third of HNC navigators (32.5%; 27/83) reported tracking the metric for time-to-PORT at their facility. When estimating the timeframe in which the NCCN and Commission on Cancer guidelines recommend commencing PORT, 44.0% (37/84) of HNC navigators correctly stated ≤6 weeks; 71.4% (60/84) reported that they did not know the frequency of delays starting PORT among patients with HNC nationally, and 63.1% (53/84) did not know the frequency of delays at their institution.In this national landscape survey, we identified that PN is already widely used in clinical practice to help patients with HNC start timely, guideline-adherent PORT. To enhance and scale PN within this area and improve the quality and equity of HNC care delivery, organizations could focus on providing better education and support for their navigators as well as specialization in HNC.
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