Readiness to Implement Symptom Management Care Pathways in Pediatric Cancer.

ABSTRACT: Background: To describe barriers to pediatric cancer symptom management care pathway implementation and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical research evaluating their implementation. Methods: We included 25 pediatric oncology hospitals in the United States that supported a grant submission to perform a cluster randomized trial in which the intervention encompassed care pathways for symptom management. A survey was distributed to site principal investigators to measure contextual elements related to care pathway implementation. Questions included the inner setting measures of the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR), study-specific potential barriers and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical research. The Wilcoxon rank sum test was use

SUBMITTER: Dupuis LL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7781319 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature