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       Impact on quality of care by having Stratified Cancer pathways i
       nitiative
       By: admini5 Date: May 11, 2015, 4:39 am
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       [center]What is the impact on quality of care or population
       health by having Stratified Cancer pathways initiative in
       place?[/center]
       Benefits of the self-management pathway include the following.
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       specialist team.
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       cancer referrals and enables rapid access back into the system
       for existing patients with problems.
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       discussion with patients at key points in the pathway helps to
       detect and manage cancer-related psychosocial morbidity that
       might not be identified in a typical outpatient appointment.
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       monitoring surveillance tests remotely is more likely to be a
       person who is familiar with a patient’s history.
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       of their condition and situation, through needs assessments and
       information events, should enable earlier self-detection of
       recurrence. Demand for helplines and unplanned admissions
       decreases. Patient confidence to self-manage their health and
       wellbeing increases.
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       service earlier with any worries or concerns. In a survey to
       identify the personal cost of follow-up to patients, 24% of
       participants reported having new symptoms that they did not
       report until their next outpatient appointment.
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       responsive access to specialist teams if problems occur.
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       meets NICE quality standards and is tailored to individual
       tolerances provides a safer system to monitor patients in
       remission and reduce the numbers ‘lost to follow-up’.
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       diagnosis and treatment, and prompt primary care teams to
       undertake cancer care reviews and alert patients to potential
       effects that may occur many years after treatment. A baseline
       evaluation of clinic letters found there to be insufficient
       information for GPs to enable patients to be managed in primary
       care leading to a higher likelihood of people being referred
       back to specialist teams if problems arise.
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       any needs assessment and care planning. For some patients,
       lifestyle changes will reduce the risk of disease recurrence,
       lower the impact of comorbid disease and improve quality of
       life.
       These benefits have been demonstrated in the short term but,
       given the long-term nature of cancer, the sustainability of the
       benefits of the initiative has not yet been proven.
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