Sylvie Lambert and Rosana Faria have been awarded the 2020 edition of the Rossy Cancer Network’s CQI Research Fund competition for their project “The use of Patient Report Outcomes (PROs) to improve integrated care among patients diagnosed with lung cancer and treated across different cancer centres.” 

This study aims to improve the care of lung cancer patients across the trajectory of care by asking them about the symptoms they experience (either due to the cancer itself or its treatments), communicating this information back to clinicians, and facilitating follow-up symptom management care. This might have an impact on how well individuals can manage their treatment and on the quality of their day-to-day lives. Patients may also be treated by different care providers, often across different healthcare settings, and this study will explore how to improve communication among providers. To achieve our aims, we will partner with patients and care providers to design the symptom screening program that will be delivered electronically. Through a series of group meetings, patients, care providers, and researchers will work together to identify the priorities and content of this screening program. We will then test the screening program with a small group of patients with lung cancer to make sure it does in fact meet the priorities of all end users.

Sylvie Lambert and Rosanna Faria will co-lead a SMHC-MUHC team including co-investigators, John Kildea, Tarek Hijal, Myriam Ménard, Benjamin Shieh, Jonathan Spicer and Christine Bouchard and collaborators Adrian Langleben, Sergio Faria and Scott Owen.

About Rossy Cancer Network

A collaboration between McGill University, the McGill University Health Centre, the Jewish General Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital Center, the Rossy Cancer Network, made possible thanks to the exceptional support of the Rossy Foundation, aims to improve quality of care and patient satisfaction, increase survival rates and reduce the burden of cancer.

The network, which forms part of la Direction générale québécois de cancérologie, provides an exceptional opportunity to advance care using a common framework of quality, resources and tools to not only improve clinical outcomes but to also positively influence research and teaching.

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https://www.mcgill.ca/rcr-rcn/funding/cqi-programs/research/recipients