The Cancer Rehabilitation Medicine Metrics Consortium: A Path to Enhanced, Multi-Site Outcome Assessment to Enhance Care and Demonstrate Value.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

A primary objective stated at the Cancer Rehabilitation Symposium at the National Institutes of Health was to improve outcome measurement. The purpose of this project was for the Cancer Rehabilitation Medicine Metrics Consortium (CRMMC) to develop an assessment tool to evaluate function in cancer patients via a data-driven and methodologically sound process. There is no agreed-upon measure of physical and cognitive function for cancer patients, making it difficult to demonstrate the value of rehabilitation interventions. Cancer patients are a particularly challenging population, with many tumor- and treatment-related variables impacting function.

Methods

Investigators from nine different cancer rehabilitation programs participated in a modified-Delphi process to deli

SUBMITTER: Smith SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7887295 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature