Seven leaders in oncology have debuted a model to help organizations establish and sustain high-functioning multidisciplinary oncology care teams. The group published an outline of the model May 18 in the American Society of Clinical Oncology Educational Book.
The researchers — from Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, Stanford (Calif.) University, Chicago-based Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, St. Louis-based Washington University and New Haven, Conn.-based Yale University School of Medicine — created the model to help coordinate actions across specialties, care settings and treatment timelines.
Here are three things to know about the model:
- The group developed the team-building strategy using the 4R oncology model: right information, right care, right patient and right time.
- The model establishes team goals and actions around a patient-centered timeline called the Care Sequence.
- “The Care Sequence is a patient-facing roadmap that depicts guideline-concordant care across disciplines, clarifies timing and dependencies and defines responsibilities,” the article authors wrote. “It shifts focus from specialty workflows to a patient-centered chronology.”
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