Patient, Clinician, and Administrator Experiences with Evidence-Based Practices to Reduce Unnecessary Hospitalizations and ED Visits During Cancer Treatment
- Clinical Transformation
This project is conducting an in-depth, structured, & comprehensive interview program of patients, clinicians & administrators to understand their experiences with reducing unnecessary hospitalizations & emergency department visits during cancer treatment.
Seventy-five percent of patients with advanced cancer are hospitalized in the year after diagnosis and one in six patients with advanced cancer are admitted three or more times in a year. To build a new model of cancer care delivery, PC3I researchers are conducting an in-depth, structured and comprehensive interview program of patients, clinicians and administrators to understand their experiences with reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and emergency department visits during cancer treatment.
Potential impact includes a reduction in unnecessary hospitalizations and emergency department visits during cancer treatment.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Health
Abramson Cancer Center (ACC) Cancer Control Program; Departments of Medicine, Division of Hematology Oncology, Family Medicine and Community Health, Radiation Oncology, and Anthropology; Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP); Penn Medicine Cancer Service Line.
Project Leads
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Tara Kaufmann
MD, MS
Breast Medical Oncologist, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin
Project Team
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Erin Aakhus
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Andrea Bilger
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Jennifer Braun
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Peter Gabriel
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Vivek Nimgaunkar
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Katharine Rendle
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Arnav Shah
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Larry Shulman
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Rebecca Trotta
