Regional Cancer Care Northwest is improving quality of care for cancer patients through an assessment tool to standardize telemedicine visits in the region.
The standardized assessment tool was piloted at Riverside Health Care in Fort Frances, working in collaboration between each local hospital site and the regional cancer centre. The program arranges for patients to complete the assessment using the standardized tool just prior to virtually meeting with their nurse in the host site in Thunder Bay. The complete assessment is then shared with the specialist prior to each telemedicine visit.
The information shared with the specialist includes the patient’s vitals, height and weight and Best Possible Medication History (BPMH), as well as quality and service indicators such as smoking status, nursing notes and results from Your Symptoms Matter survey, a standardized symptom management survey.
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