Integrating accompanying patients into clinical oncology teams: limiting and facilitating factors.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Since 2018, four establishments in Quebec have been instrumental in implementing the PAROLE-Onco program, which introduced accompanying patients (APs) into healthcare teams to improve cancer patients' experience. APs are patient advisors who have acquired specific experiential knowledge related to living with cancer, using services, and interacting with healthcare professionals. They are therefore in a unique and reliable position to be able to provide emotional, informational, cognitive and navigational support to patients who are dealing with cancer. We aimed to explore APs' perspectives regarding the limiting and facilitating factors in terms of how they are integrated into the clinical oncology teams.

Methods

A qualitative study based on semi-structured interv

SUBMITTER: Pomey MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10826234 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature