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The Patient Education Program improves patient experience by facilitating evidence-based person-centred care and advancing the quality of patient education in Ontario. The program’s focus spans across the cancer continuum, from screening to survivorship and end-of-life care.
The Patient Education Strategic Framework supports the vision of the Patient Education Program: To support Ontarians affected by cancer to access, understand, communicate, and use information to make informed decisions, take actions about their health and effectively navigate the continuum of cancer care, in partnership with their healthcare team.
accomplished in the area of cancer patient education. More specifically, the Cancer Patient Education Network (CPEN), Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) and Cancer Care Nova Scotia (CCNS) have pioneered work around standards and guidelines in cancer patient education. The quality documents produced as a result of this work form the basis of
The Guidelines provide cancer patient educators with a basic overview of the cancer patient education landscape, definitions, standards, pressing issues and recommendations regarding effective strategies to organize and structure patient education services, as well as assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate cancer patient education in a ...
The Cancer Care Ontario Patient Education Program Committee in collaboration with the Program in Evidence-Based Care (PEBC) has reviewed the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) guidelines, Guidelines on Establishing Comprehensive Cancer Patient Education Services, from the Cancer Patient Education Network (CPEN) and endorses the adoption of the Guidelines, with some revision, for use in Ontario.
Effective education helps people with cancer make informed decisions about their care and improves treatment outcomes. Using evidence-based best practices in patient and family education has contributed to the ongoing national and international efforts to reduce cancer morbidity and mortality.
Cancer treatment is delivered in a variety of settings, including, for example, the practices of medical oncologists; primary care providers; surgeons; radiologists; and other specialists, such as hematologists and urologists (see Table 5-1).11The committee located no data describing how cancer care differs across these different settings of care. As stated in Chapter 4, the committee believes ...
