TY - JOUR
T1 - Toward a National Initiative in Cancer Rehabilitation
T2 - Recommendations From a Subject Matter Expert Group
AU - Stout, Nicole L.
AU - Silver, Julie K.
AU - Raj, Vishwa S.
AU - Rowland, Julia
AU - Gerber, Lynn
AU - Cheville, Andrea
AU - Ness, Kirsten K.
AU - Radomski, Mary
AU - Nitkin, Ralph
AU - Stubblefield, Michael D.
AU - Morris, G. Stephen
AU - Acevedo, Ana
AU - Brandon, Zavera
AU - Braveman, Brent
AU - Cunningham, Schuyler
AU - Gilchrist, Laura
AU - Jones, Lee
AU - Padgett, Lynne
AU - Wolf, Timothy
AU - Winters-Stone, Kerri
AU - Campbell, Grace
AU - Hendricks, Jennifer
AU - Perkin, Karen
AU - Chan, Leighton
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by the Rehabilitation Medicine Department of the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Cancer Institute, and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research at the NIH.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
PY - 2016/11/1
Y1 - 2016/11/1
N2 - The health care delivery system in the United States is challenged to meet the needs of a growing population of cancer survivors. A pressing need is to optimize overall function and reduce disability in these individuals. Functional impairments and disability affect most patients during and after disease treatment. Rehabilitation health care providers can diagnose and treat patients’ physical, psychological, and cognitive impairments in an effort to maintain or restore function, reduce symptom burden, maximize independence and improve quality of life in this medically complex population. However, few care delivery models integrate comprehensive cancer rehabilitation services into the oncology care continuum. The Rehabilitation Medicine Department of the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health with support from the National Cancer Institute and the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research convened a subject matter expert group to review current literature and practice patterns, identify opportunities and gaps regarding cancer rehabilitation and its support of oncology care, and make recommendations for future efforts that promote quality cancer rehabilitation care. The recommendations suggest stronger efforts toward integrating cancer rehabilitation care models into oncology care from the point of diagnosis, incorporating evidence-based rehabilitation clinical assessment tools, and including rehabilitation professionals in shared decision-making in order to provide comprehensive cancer care and maximize the functional capabilities of cancer survivors. These recommendations aim to enable future collaborations among a variety of stakeholders to improve the delivery of high-quality cancer care.
AB - The health care delivery system in the United States is challenged to meet the needs of a growing population of cancer survivors. A pressing need is to optimize overall function and reduce disability in these individuals. Functional impairments and disability affect most patients during and after disease treatment. Rehabilitation health care providers can diagnose and treat patients’ physical, psychological, and cognitive impairments in an effort to maintain or restore function, reduce symptom burden, maximize independence and improve quality of life in this medically complex population. However, few care delivery models integrate comprehensive cancer rehabilitation services into the oncology care continuum. The Rehabilitation Medicine Department of the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health with support from the National Cancer Institute and the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research convened a subject matter expert group to review current literature and practice patterns, identify opportunities and gaps regarding cancer rehabilitation and its support of oncology care, and make recommendations for future efforts that promote quality cancer rehabilitation care. The recommendations suggest stronger efforts toward integrating cancer rehabilitation care models into oncology care from the point of diagnosis, incorporating evidence-based rehabilitation clinical assessment tools, and including rehabilitation professionals in shared decision-making in order to provide comprehensive cancer care and maximize the functional capabilities of cancer survivors. These recommendations aim to enable future collaborations among a variety of stakeholders to improve the delivery of high-quality cancer care.
KW - Morbidity
KW - Neoplasms
KW - Recovery of function
KW - Rehabilitation
KW - Secondary prevention
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U2 - 10.1016/j.apmr.2016.05.002
DO - 10.1016/j.apmr.2016.05.002
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 27237580
AN - SCOPUS:84992584901
SN - 0003-9993
VL - 97
SP - 2006
EP - 2015
JO - Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
JF - Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
IS - 11
ER -