TY - JOUR
T1 - ESMO Designated Centres of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care (ESMO DCs)
T2 - education, research and programme development survey
AU - Kreye, G
AU - Lundeby, T
AU - Latino, N
AU - Galotti, M
AU - Kaasa, S
N1 - Funding Information:
After the survey, in 2022 ESMO has joined the MyPath Project as an associate partner. This is a 5-year project funded by the EU’s Horizon Europe Programme and which commenced on 1 September 2022. The overall objective of this European grant is to implement patient-centred care to European cancer patients, regardless of stage of disease, prognosis or place of care. The consortium will develop, program and implement electronic patient-centred care pathways that link assessment with management, and are an integrated part of the patient record systems. The implementation of these pathways will improve the quality of care, patient transitions and transfer of information across health care levels. The flexible design allows for necessary adaptations to time, place, patient groups and care needs, regardless of disease stage, socioeconomic and sex/cultural issues.
Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the following survey respondents: Azura Rozila Ahmad, Omneya Ahmed Ibrahim Mansour, Johann Ahn, Alberto Alonso-Babarro, Mohammad Al-Shahri, Maria Angeles Arcusa, Rahul D. Arora, Gouri Shankar Bhattacharyya, Stefan Bielack, Carole Bouleuc, Oscar Breathnach, Chiara Broglia, Antonello Calderoni, Ilaria Carandina, Carlos Centeno, Vittore Cereda, Luis Cirera, Alessandro Comandone, Sarah Dauchy, Jan Maree Davis, Claudio Denzlinger, Lionel D'Hondt, Omer Dizdar, Bernd Dr. Oldenkott, Maja Ebert Moltara, Evgeny Ermakov, Gaspar Esquerdo, Chun-Kai Fang, Joao Freire, Norbert Frickhofen, Isabel Galriça Neto, Sushmita Ghoshal Chakrabarti, Raffaele Giusti, Elwira Goraj, Alexandru Călin Grigorescu, Martin Gruenewald, Waleed Hamdy, Azza Hassan, David Hausner, Alet Jansen, Jayne Wood, Anjum Shabbar Joad, Rohit Joshi, Joseph Kattan, Evelien Kuip, Nicla La Verde, Roberto Labianca, Sing Hung Lo, Mari Lõhmus, Erik Løhre, Gustavo López, Dominique Lossignol, Giovanna Luchena, Fausto Meriggi, Manuel Morales, Anna Mullard, Waleed Nafae, Karen Nestor, Karin Oechsle, Seamus O'Reilly, Özgür Ozyilkan, Arianna Pellegrino, Luísa Pereira, Fausto Petricola, Maria Simona Pino, Luis Pino, Graziella Pinotti, Razvan Popescu, Silvia Quadrini, Marianna Ricci, Wuilbert Rodriguez, Dulce Rodriguez Mesa, Fausto Roila, Ariana Rosiu, Rakesh Roy, Tamari Rukhadze, Mohamed Salama, Sung Inda Soong, Anna-Marie Stevens, Silvia Stragliotto, Paolo Tralongo, Ismail Hakki Necdet Uskent, Marieke van den Beuken-van Everdingen, Yvette Van der Linden, Carin Van der Rijt, Gertruud Van der Werff, Enzo Sandro Antonio Veltri, Emma Verastegui, Simon Wein, Florian Weissinger, Nikolay Yordanov, Jeanie Youngwerth, Kwok Keung Yuen. We also thank those who wished to remain anonymous. None declared. The authors have declared no conflicts of interest.
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© 2022 The Authors
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - BACKGROUND: The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Designated Centres (DCs) of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care is an incentive programme established in 2003 aiming to improve the integration of oncology and palliative care services provided by oncologists and oncology centres worldwide. Currently, the ESMO DCs programme has over 250 centres accredited from 54 countries worldwide, in all six world regions.MATERIALS AND METHODS: To evaluate how ESMO can support centres to improve programme development, education and research and vice versa what each single centre can do to improve in these areas, we developed a survey which was shared with all active centres. Two hundred and seven ESMO DCs representing 44 countries were invited to participate. We used content analysis to identify response categories using a stepwise approach. After reviewing and coding all responses to each question separately, they were placed into categories, counted and labelled.RESULTS: Of the 207 centres that were invited to participate, 146 centres started the survey, representing 43 countries. Five overarching topics were identified. They included (i) joint events and educational activities; (ii) sharing of materials and defining common standards; (iii) sharing of experiences, scientific knowledge and expertise; (iv) research collaboration; and (v) ESMO support. Respondents were willing to support the ESMO DC community group in all topics and were also asking ESMO to support their centres in these issues in the future.CONCLUSION: The study showed that the ESMO DCs are willing to provide support to improve education, research and programme development. They are also eager to contribute and collaborate amongst each other, but also request ESMO to offer advice and help to improve these issues in the DCs. In the future, facilitation of joint research projects and development of arenas to share experiences, educational and programme developments, and other resources are to be explored and could be offered to the DCs worldwide.
AB - BACKGROUND: The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Designated Centres (DCs) of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care is an incentive programme established in 2003 aiming to improve the integration of oncology and palliative care services provided by oncologists and oncology centres worldwide. Currently, the ESMO DCs programme has over 250 centres accredited from 54 countries worldwide, in all six world regions.MATERIALS AND METHODS: To evaluate how ESMO can support centres to improve programme development, education and research and vice versa what each single centre can do to improve in these areas, we developed a survey which was shared with all active centres. Two hundred and seven ESMO DCs representing 44 countries were invited to participate. We used content analysis to identify response categories using a stepwise approach. After reviewing and coding all responses to each question separately, they were placed into categories, counted and labelled.RESULTS: Of the 207 centres that were invited to participate, 146 centres started the survey, representing 43 countries. Five overarching topics were identified. They included (i) joint events and educational activities; (ii) sharing of materials and defining common standards; (iii) sharing of experiences, scientific knowledge and expertise; (iv) research collaboration; and (v) ESMO support. Respondents were willing to support the ESMO DC community group in all topics and were also asking ESMO to support their centres in these issues in the future.CONCLUSION: The study showed that the ESMO DCs are willing to provide support to improve education, research and programme development. They are also eager to contribute and collaborate amongst each other, but also request ESMO to offer advice and help to improve these issues in the DCs. In the future, facilitation of joint research projects and development of arenas to share experiences, educational and programme developments, and other resources are to be explored and could be offered to the DCs worldwide.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.esmoop.2022.100622
DO - 10.1016/j.esmoop.2022.100622
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 36356414
SN - 2059-7029
VL - 7
SP - 100622
JO - ESMO Open
JF - ESMO Open
IS - 6
M1 - 100622
ER -