Shared Medical Appointments for Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance Follow-Up Visits.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To accommodate for the rapidly increasing patient volume and follow-up visits of men with prostate cancer on active surveillance (AS), we carried out a quality improvement project to secure high-quality care and enhance patient experience.

Materials and methods

We proposed an innovative clinic systems redesign - "Shared Medical Appointments" (SMAs) - in which multiple patients were seen in a group format at the same time by the health care team led by a urologist leading the Institution's AS program.

Results

We piloted four SMAs during July-November 2019. Running the SMAs was feasible and improved the contact time for each patient while at the same time being time- and resource efficient for the healthcare providers and using the standard billing processes. Th

SUBMITTER: Carlsson SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8612701 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature