Educational initiatives improve quality of care delivery
Friday, May 15, 2009 - 06:35
in Health & Medicine
A study of targeted educational initiatives between the clinical staff at Fox Chase Cancer Centre and the hospitals within their Partners program suggest that educational interventions by academic cancer centres can improve quality of care for cancer patients at community hospitals. The study, to be presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, looked specifically at the number of lymph nodes that were surgically removed in colorectal cancer patients at Fox Chase's partner hospitals and the impact that educational initiatives by clinical staff had on improving the number of nodes removed...