Improving Care Coordination to Optimize Health Outcomes in Cancer Survivors

Linda Overholser; Carlin Callaway

doi:10.6004/jnccn.2019.5009

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Improving Care Coordination to Optimize Health Outcomes in Cancer Survivors

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Linda Overholser

Linda Overholser
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MD, MPH

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Carlin Callaway

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DNP, RN, ACNP-BC

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Volume/Issue:: Volume 17: Issue 5.5

Online Publication Date:: May 2019

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.6004/jnccn.2019.5009

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Most cancer survivors will follow-up with primary care at some point in the cancer continuum, but coordination between the oncology and primary care teams remains challenging. According to Drs. Linda Overholser and Carlin Callaway, who discussed the importance of care coordination to improve outcomes in cancer survivors at the NCCN 2019 Annual Conference, effective communication is needed between specialists and primary care providers and, when established, has been shown to improve treatment outcomes. Use of survivorship care plans, as well as adherence to the NCCN Guidelines for Survivorship, can further standardize the provision of quality oncology care.

Correspondence: Linda Overholser, MD, MPH, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Colorado, 12631 East 17th Avenue, Mail Stop B180, Aurora, CO 80045. Email: linda.overholser@ucdenver.edu; and Carlin Callaway, DNP, RN, ACNP-BC, University of Colorado Cancer Center, 1665 Aurora Court, Mail Stop F704, Aurora, CO 80045. Email: carlin.callaway@ucdenver.edu

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