Evaluating the feasibility, effectiveness and costs of implementing person-centred follow-up care for childhood cancer survivors in four European countries: the PanCareFollowUp Care prospective cohort study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Long-term survival after childhood cancer often comes at the expense of late, adverse health conditions. However, survivorship care is frequently not available for adult survivors in Europe. The PanCareFollowUp Consortium therefore developed the PanCareFollowUp Care Intervention, an innovative person-centred survivorship care model based on experiences in the Netherlands. This paper describes the protocol of the prospective cohort study (Care Study) to evaluate the feasibility and the health economic, clinical and patient-reported outcomes of implementing PanCareFollowUp Care as usual care in four European countries.

Methods and analysis

In this prospective, longitudinal cohort study with at least 6 months of follow-up, 800 childhood cancer survivors will receiv

SUBMITTER: van Kalsbeek RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9677022 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature