scholarly journals The Society for Integrative Oncology Practice Recommendations for online consultation and treatment

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 102028
Author(s):  
Lynda Balneaves ◽  
Eran Ben-Arye ◽  
Lynda G. Balneaves ◽  
Channing J. Paller ◽  
Ana Maria Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Integrative Oncology ◽  
Practice Recommendations ◽  
Online Consultation ◽  
Oncology Practice

scholarly journals The Society for Integrative Oncology Practice Recommendations for online consultation and treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eran Ben-Arye ◽  
Channing J. Paller ◽  
Ana Maria Lopez ◽  
Shelley White ◽  
Eva Pendleton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Continuity Of Care ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Specific Treatment ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Treatment Session ◽  
Integrative Oncology ◽  
Practice Recommendations ◽  
Online Consultation ◽  
Online Treatment ◽  
Challenges And Strategies

Abstract Objective The Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO) Online Task Force was created in response to the challenges facing continuity of integrative oncology care resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Task Force set out to guide integrative oncology practitioners in providing effective and safe online consultations and treatments for quality-of-life-concerns and symptom management. Online treatments include manual, acupuncture, movement, mind-body, herbal, and expressive art therapies. Methods The SIO Online Practice Recommendations employed a four-phase consensus process: (1) literature review and discussion among an international panel of SIO members, identifying key elements essential in an integrative oncology visit; (2) development, testing, and refinement of a questionnaire defining challenges and strategies; (3) refinement input from integrative oncology experts from 19 countries; and (4) SIO Executive Committee review identifying the most high-priority challenges and strategies. Results The SIO Online Practice Recommendations address ten challenges, providing practical suggestions for online treatment/consultation. These include overcoming unfamiliarity, addressing resistance among patients and healthcare practitioners to online consultation/treatment, exploring ethical and medical-legal aspects, solving technological issues, preparing the online treatment setting, starting the online treatment session, maintaining effective communication, promoting specific treatment effects, involving the caregiver, concluding the session, and ensuring continuity of care. Conclusions The SIO Online Practice Recommendations are relevant for ensuring continuity of care beyond the present pandemic. They can be implemented for patients with limited accessibility to integrative oncology treatments due to geographic constraints, financial difficulties, physical disability, or an unsupportive caregiver. These recommendations require further study in practice settings.

scholarly journals Proposed Consensus-Based Canadian Integrative Oncology Research Priorities

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Weeks ◽  
Dugald Seely ◽  
Lynda Balneaves ◽  
Heather Boon ◽  
Anne Leis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Care ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Delphi Survey ◽  
Integrative Oncology ◽  
Stakeholder Consultation ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Oncology Research ◽  
Oncology Practice ◽  
Canadian Research

Objectives: An increasing number of integrative oncology programs are being established across Canada that offer a combination of complementary and conventional medical treatments in a shift towards whole-person cancer care. It was our objective to identify consensus-based research priorities within a coherent research agenda to guide Canadian integrative oncology practice and policy moving forward.Methods: Members of the Integrative Canadian Oncology Research Initiative and the Ottawa Integrative Cancer Centre organized a 2-day consensus workshop, which was preceded by a Delphi survey and stakeholder interviews.Results: Eighty-one participants took part in Round 1 of the Delphi survey, 52 in Round 2 (66.2%) and 45 (86.5%) in Round 3. Nineteen invited stakeholders participated in the 2-day workshop held in Ottawa, Canada. Five inter-related priority research areas emerged as a foundation for a Canadian research agenda: Effectiveness; Safety; Resource and Health Services Utilization; Knowledge Translation; and Developing Integrative Oncology Models. Research is needed within each priority area from a range of different perspectives (e.g., patient, practitioner, health system) and that reflects a continuum of integration from the addition of a single complementary intervention within conventional cancer care to systemic change. Participants brainstormed strategic directions to implement the developing research agenda and identified related opportunities within Canada. A voting process helped to identify working groups to pursue strategic directions within the interest and expertise of meeting participants.Conclusion: The identified research priorities reflect the needs and perspectives of a spectrum of integrative oncology stakeholders. Ongoing stakeholder consultation, including engagement from new stakeholders, is needed to ensure appropriate uptake and implementation of the Canadian research agenda.

Australian Approaches to Integrative Oncology: Practice and Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. S20
Author(s):  
Suzanne Grant ◽  
Judith Lacey ◽  
Carlene Wilson ◽  
Chandrika Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Integrative Oncology ◽  
Oncology Practice

scholarly journals The role of academic health centres to inform evidence-based integrative oncology practice

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 247-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun J. Mao ◽  
Robert B. Saper ◽  
Margaret A. Chesney
Keyword(s):  
Evidence Based ◽  
Integrative Oncology ◽  
Academic Health ◽  
Health Centres ◽  
Oncology Practice

Innovations in American Society of Clinical Oncology Practice Guideline Development

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (26) ◽  
pp. 3213-3220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark R. Somerfield ◽  
Kari Bohlke ◽  
George P. Browman ◽  
Neelima Denduluri ◽  
Kaitlin Einhaus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Guideline Development ◽  
Point Of Care ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Multiple Chronic Conditions ◽  
Practice Recommendations ◽  
Quality Guidelines ◽  
American Society ◽  
Oncology Practice ◽  
Development Methods

Since the beginning of its guidelines program in 1993, ASCO has continually sought ways to produce a greater number of guidelines while maintaining its commitment to using the rigorous development methods that minimize the biases that threaten the validity of practice recommendations. ASCO is implementing a range of guideline development and implementation innovations. In this article, we describe innovations that are designed to (1) integrate consideration of multiple chronic conditions into practice guidelines; (2) keep more of its guidelines current by applying evolving signals or (more) rapid, for-cause updating approaches; (3) increase the number of high-quality guidelines available to its membership through endorsement and adaptation of other groups’ products; (4) improve coverage of its members’ guideline needs through a new topic nomination process; and (5) enhance dissemination and promote implementation of ASCO guidelines in the oncology practice community through a network of volunteer ambassadors. We close with a summary of ASCO’s plans to facilitate the integration of data from its rapid learning system, CancerLinQ, into ASCO guidelines and to develop tactics through which guideline recommendations can be embedded in clinicians’ workflow in digital form. We highlight the challenges inherent in reconciling the need to provide clinicians with more interactive, point-of-care guidance with ASCO’s abiding commitment to methodologic rigor in guideline development.

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