Promoting the Shared-Care Model for Adolescent and Young Adults With Cancer: Optimizing Referrals and Care Coordination With Primary Care Providers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The "shared-care model" for patients with cancer involves care coordination between primary care providers (PCPs) and oncologists, with the goal of optimizing survivorship care. However, a high proportion of adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors do not have a PCP. Study objectives were to increase the percentage of AYAs with a PCP documented in the electronic medical record (EMR) via the use of a best practice advisory (BPA) or "stopgap" intervention; to increase communication between providers by the number of routed clinic notes; and to assess oncology providers' attitudes/beliefs about the model and intervention.

Methods

Data were collected for the 6 months before implementation of the BPA to determine the percentage of AYAs with a PCP and the numbe

SUBMITTER: Kinahan KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5537736 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature