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What’s Making Survivorship Care Planning So Difficult to Incorporate?

Originally published on Oncology Times.   ‘Focus Has Been Off’ Asked her opinion, Carrie Stricker, PhD, CRNP, an oncology nurse practitioner at Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania, said that a big problem with implementing survivorship care plans so far has been that people have lost sight of the real purpose of these plans and placed too much…
Carevive
September 25, 2014
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Implementing the commission on cancer standards for survivorship care plans.

Originally posted on http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ The number of adult cancer survivors in the United States has exceeded 13 million and continues to rise, yet care for these survivors continues to be poorly coordinated and their needs remain inadequately addressed. As one solution to this growing problem, the Institute of Medicine in 2006 recommended the delivery of a survivorship care plan (SCP) to…
Carrie Stricker
February 24, 2014