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01-06-2021 | Care | Palliative Medicine (A Jatoi, Section Editor)

Organizational Strategies for Providing Cancer Palliative Care to Many

Authors: Arunangshu Ghoshal, Anuja Damani, Jayita Deodhar, Mary Ann Muckaden

Published in: Current Oncology Reports | Issue 6/2021

Abstract

Purpose

Hospitals and healthcare organizations are today operating in an extremely competitive environment, with increasing pressure to improve quality while reducing costs. In responding to this dynamic situation, transformation of any organization requires the will to organize delivery around the needs of patients.

Recent Findings

Providing palliative care to the many who require it needs the value agenda to be formulated based on mutually reinforcing components. Here we present an overview of the framework for a palliative care department in a comprehensive cancer center, which includes different levels that are embedded within a comprehensive system. Detailed information on each level is presented, followed by a discussion of quality of care, as an integrating theme for the framework.

Summary

The chapter concludes by detailing the benefits that a comprehensive cancer palliative care center provides to a country’s healthcare efforts through service, education, research, and advocacy.

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Title: Organizational Strategies for Providing Cancer Palliative Care to Many
Authors: Arunangshu Ghoshal
Anuja Damani
Jayita Deodhar
Mary Ann Muckaden
Publication date: 01-06-2021
Publisher: Springer US
Keyword: Care
Published in: Current Oncology Reports / Issue 6/2021
Print ISSN: 1523-3790
Electronic ISSN: 1534-6269
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11912-021-01061-7

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