Tuesday, 5 July 2022

Routine Assessment of Health Related Quality of Life in Head & Neck Cancer Patients: A 10 Years’ Experience | Chapter 16 | Current Practice in Medical Science Vol. 1

In the field of head and neck oncology, clinical outcomes are often employed. Clinician-reported outcome assessments (health professionals), observer-reported outcome assessments (caregivers), and patient-reported outcome assessments are the three categories that clinical outcome evaluations fall under (patient or proxies).

Based on a decade of experience, we identified the following crucial elements for a successful implementation: institutional support and approval, inclusion of all first-line caregivers, uniformity of team objectives and institutional proposals, team formation and training, encouragement of the defined workflow in routine clinical practise, and ongoing monitoring and analysis.

The knowledge gained from routinely assessing health-related quality of life allows for a considerably more comprehensive and all-encompassing understanding of its significance throughout the disease.

Because they are aware that these patient-centered outcomes will be utilised to raise healthcare quality, which is also our main objective, patients with head and neck cancer view questionnaires as an essential component of their treatment plans.

Author(s) Details:

Teresa Sequeira,
Faculty of Health Sciences, Fernando Pessoa University, Rua Carlos da Maia, 296, 4200-150 Porto, Portugal and Centre for Health Studies and Research of University of Coimbra/Centre for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Faculty of Economics, Avenida Dias da Silva, 165, 3004- 512, Coimbra, Portugal.

Augusta Silveira,
Faculty of Health Sciences, Fernando Pessoa University, Rua Carlos da Maia, 296, 4200-150 Porto, Portugal and Centre for Health Studies and Research of University of Coimbra/Centre for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Faculty of Economics, Avenida Dias da Silva, 165, 3004- 512, Coimbra, Portugal.

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