Interprofessional Teamwork in Oncology: Patient-Centered Perspectives and Survivorship Care Planning
摘要
Underscoring the role of interprofessional communication, this chapter explains cancer survivorship care planning and the transition to patient care after active cancer treatment ends. This transition and the post-treatment period is often a source of uncertainty that is anxiety-inducing for cancer survivors. This is largely because they see their interprofessional care providers go from being a coordinated and co-located oncology team whose members share goals and information about care to a constellation of different care providers across the health and social care network. Disjointed communication and discontinuous relationships with care providers can be significant sourses of uncertainty. The implementation of a survivorship care plan, including what has been and what needs to be done, is one way to address these communication challenges and bolster patient-centered care.