Post-Surgery ePRO Helps Patients With Cancer Track Milestones and Prepare for Discharge
Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering have developed a digital tool called 'Goals to Discharge' to help cancer patients track recovery milestones. The tool, which integrates electronic patient-reported outcomes, has been shown to reduce hospital stays for post-operative patients.
Why it matters
Improving discharge planning can significantly reduce hospital readmission rates and alleviate the stress placed on cancer patients and their caregivers during the transition home.
By Teresa Hagan Thomas, PhD, RN iStock.com/alvarez
Cancer-related surgeries often require patients to be admitted to the hospital until they can safely return home. The discharge from hospital to home is critical, given the knowledge and skills patients and their family members need to transition safely. Finding ways to support this hospital-to-home transition can promote patient safety and surgical recovery and prevent hospital readmissions. For patients with cancer specifically, this is especially important given the need to delay cancer treatment because of post-surgery complications and the overall stress many patients and caregivers experience.
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