Comprehensive Interventions for Building a Better Regional Cooperation for Cancer Patients

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  • TOBA Hiroaki
    Department of Thoracic, Endocrine Surgery and Oncology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School
  • TAKIZAWA Hiromitsu
    Department of Thoracic, Endocrine Surgery and Oncology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School
  • AOYAMA Mariko
    Department of Thoracic, Endocrine Surgery and Oncology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School
  • INOUE Hiroaki
    Department of Thoracic, Endocrine Surgery and Oncology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School
  • TANGOKU Akira
    Department of Thoracic, Endocrine Surgery and Oncology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School

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  • より良いがんの地域連携体制構築のための包括的な取り組み
  • ヨリ ヨイ ガン ノ チイキ レンケイ タイセイ コウチク ノ タメ ノ ホウカツテキ ナ トリクミ

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<p>Objectives : We introduce our comprehensive interventions for building a better regional cooperation for cancer patients. Methods : We have made a questionnaire survey for community physicians asking whether they can accept cancer patients and what types of medical treatments they can provide. Based on the questionnaire responses, we visualized the information, developed a new critical pathway, and improved the system in a basic hospital. Results : We first organized the information obtained from the questionnaire responses and uploaded the organized information to the basic hospital's homepage for public access. We then developed a new critical pathway for the cooperation among community physicians considering the prophylactic administration of a granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) formulation for treating cancer patients. This treatment was subsequently applied to four patients. Additionally, a community physician was matched with each patient by a medical social worker during the patients' hospitalization. We improved the basic hospital's simple electronic medical record system to reduce the physicians' workloads. As a result, the document creation could be completed within one minute, and so they could relate to approximately 10 times larger number of cases. Conclusions : Satisfactory cancer treatments can be provided for patients by building the better regional cooperative relationships and dividing the roles with community physicians in an earlier time.</p>

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