A community-based advanced nurse practitioner-led integrated oncology care model for adults receiving oral anticancer medication: a pilot study.

ABSTRACT: Oral anti-cancer medications (OAMs) are being used increasingly within cancer care. OAMs offer the potential to improve patient convenience and increase hospital capacity. The clinical assessment for each cycle of OAMs requires specialist patient review often performed in hospital-based oncology units. Consequently, any potential improvement in patient expediency or increased hospital capacity that OAMs can offer is not realised. This study aimed to develop and pilot the specialist assessment of patients receiving OAMs by an Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) in a community-based location.The primary aim of this pilot study was to assess the feasibility of a community-based ANP-led integrated oncology care model for adults receiving OAMs in Ireland who met the pre-specified eligibility crit

SUBMITTER: Richmond JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10902979 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature