Guest editorial - Patient engagement and inclusion in radiotherapy

Harman, C.; Khine, Ricardo; Sarchosoglou, A.; Bajinskis, Ainars; Brusadin, G.; Cornacchione, Patrizia; Sundqvist, E.; Jong, J.C.

doi:10.1016/j.radi.2022.03.012

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“…This issue also includes a guest editorial for the Radiotherapy Committee of the European Federation of Radiographer Societies (EFRS), which highlights the importance of patient engagement and inclusion in radiotherapy practice based on the recently published EFRS statement on 'Patient engagement and inclusion in Radiotherapy'. 3,4 This editorial is also a perfect opportunity to reflect on some of the radiotherapy highlights from the past 12 months. Unsurprisingly, diverse clinical issues are well represented, including: assessing the effectiveness of an innovative application of routine thoracic radiotherapy imaging data to detect COVID195 ; a comprehensive systematic review of current interventions to manage or radiation-induced skin reactions6 ; a qualitative investigation of a novel radiographer-led real-time online adaptive radiotherapy workflow guided by MR imaging7 ; the patient perspective on the acceptability of supplementary MRI imaging in the CT radiotherapy planning pathway for lung cancer8 ; the preferences of cancer patients and carers in Denmark regarding booking their own CT appointments using an online system.9…”

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What Radiography offers to therapeutic radiographers/radiation therapists

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2022

Radiography

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What Radiography offers to therapeutic radiographers/radiation therapists

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2022

Radiography

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“…Radiotherapists can facilitate person-centered care by ensuring patients have their undivided attention [ 22 ]. This process can be initiated by building a rapport with each patient, communicating effectively, answering their questions, discussing their preferences, listening actively, addressing their physical and emotional needs, providing them with dignity, and collaborating with other health care professionals to ensure the patient’s needs are met.…”

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“…This process can be initiated by building a rapport with each patient, communicating effectively, answering their questions, discussing their preferences, listening actively, addressing their physical and emotional needs, providing them with dignity, and collaborating with other health care professionals to ensure the patient’s needs are met. Patients stated that they felt more included and positive about their radiotherapy treatment when these aspects were addressed [ 8 , 17 , 22 ]. Person-centered care is also considered to be synonymous with “wholism,” or, as some may prefer, “holism.” Holistic care considers the body, mind, soul, and spirit as interrelated and acknowledges the whole experience [ 23 ].…”

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Holistic Person-Centered Care in Radiotherapy: Protocol for a Scoping Review

Bhyat,

Makkink,

Henrico

2024

JMIR Res Protoc

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Background Several types of health care professionals are responsible for the care of patients with cancer throughout their engagement with the health care system. One such type is the radiotherapist. The radiotherapist not only administers treatment but is also directly involved with the patient during treatment. Despite this direct contact with the patient, the narrative tends to focus more on technical tasks than the actual patient. This task-focused interaction is often due to the highly sophisticated equipment and complex radiotherapy treatment processes involved. This often results in not meeting the psychosocial needs of the patient, and patients have acknowledged noncompliance and delayed treatment as a result. Objective The scoping review aims to explore, chart, and map the available literature on holistic person-centered care in radiotherapy and to identify and present key concepts, definitions, methodologies, knowledge gaps, and evidence related to holistic person-centered care in radiotherapy. Methods This protocol was developed using previously described methodological frameworks for scoping studies. The review will include both peer-reviewed and gray literature regarding holistic, person-centered care in radiotherapy. A comprehensive search strategy has been developed for MEDLINE (Ovid), which will be translated into the other included databases: Scopus, CINAHL (EBSCO), MEDLINE (PubMed), Embase (Elsevier), Cochrane Library, and the Directory of Open Access Journals. Gray literature searching will include Google (Google Books and Google Scholar), ProQuest, the WorldWideScience website, the OpenGrey website, and various university dissertation and thesis repositories. The title and abstract screening, full-text review, and relevant data extraction will be performed independently by all 3 reviewers using the Covidence (Veritas Health Innovation) software, which will also be used to guide the resolution of conflicts. Sources selected will be imported into ATLAS.ti (ATLAS.ti Scientific Software Development GmbH) for analysis, which will consist of content analysis, narrative analysis, and descriptive synthesis. Results will be presented using narrative, diagrammatic, and tabular formats. Results The review is expected to identify research gaps that will inform current and future holistic, person-centered care in radiotherapy. The review commenced in November 2023, and the formal literature search was completed by the end of February 2024. Final results are expected to be published in a peer-reviewed journal by 2025. Conclusions The findings of this review are expected to provide a wide variety of strategies aimed at providing holistic, person-centered care in radiotherapy, as well as to identify some gaps in the literature. These findings will be used to inform future studies aimed at designing, developing, evaluating, and implementing strategies toward improved holistic, person-centered care in radiotherapy. International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) DERR1-10.2196/51338

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Holistic Person-Centered Care in Radiotherapy: Protocol for a Scoping Review (Preprint)

Makkink¹,

Bhyat²,

Henrico³

2023

Preprint

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BACKGROUND Several healthcare professionals are responsible for the cancer patient’s care throughout their engagement with the healthcare system. One such healthcare professional is the radiotherapist, who plays a crucial role in the continuum of delivering high-quality healthcare to the cancer patient. The radiotherapist not only administers treatment but is also directly involved with the patient during treatment. Despite this direct contact with the patient, the narrative tends to focus more time on technical tasks instead of the actual patient. This task-focused interaction is often due to the highly sophisticated equipment and complex radiotherapy treatment processes that the radiotherapist is required to manage. The result is that often the patient’s important psychosocial needs are not met, and patients have acknowledged non-compliance and delayed treatment as a result. OBJECTIVE The scoping review aims to explore, chart and map the available literature on wholistic person-centred care in radiotherapy and to identify and present key concepts, definitions, methodologies, knowledge gaps and evidence related to wholistic person-centred care in radiotherapy. METHODS This protocol was developed using the methodological framework for scoping studies developed by Arksey and O’Malley and incorporates the updated frameworks suggested by Levac, Colquhoun and O'Brien and Peters, Marnie and Tricco et al as well as using the Johanna Briggs Institute (JBI) methodology for scoping reviews. The review will include both peer-reviewed and gray literature regarding wholistic person-centred care in radiotherapy. A comprehensive search strategy has been developed for MEDLINE (Ovid) which will be translated into the other included databases, Scopus, CINAHL (EBSCO), MEDLINE (PubMed), Embase (Elsevier), Cochrane Library, and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Gray literature searching will include Google (Google books and Google Scholar), ProQuest, worldwidescience.org, OpenGrey (www.opengray.eu), and various university dissertation and thesis repositories. The title and abstract screening, full-text review and relevant data extraction will be performed independently by all three reviewers using the Covidence software which will also be used to guide the resolution of conflicts. Sources selected will be imported into Atlas.ti for analysis that will consist of content analysis, narrative and descriptive synthesis. Results will be presented using narrative, diagrammatic and tabular formats. RESULTS The review is expected to identify research gaps that will inform current and future wholistic person-centred care in radiotherapy. The review will begin on 30th June 2023 and will include all sources published in 2010 or later. Data analysis and final results will be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal once the project is complete. CONCLUSIONS The findings of this review are expected to provide a wide variety of strategies aimed at providing wholistic person-centred care in radiotherapy as well as some gaps in the literature. These findings will be used to inform future studies aimed at designing, developing, evaluating and implementing strategies toward improved wholistic person-centred care in radiotherapy.

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Guest editorial - Patient engagement and inclusion in radiotherapy

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

What Radiography offers to therapeutic radiographers/radiation therapists

What Radiography offers to therapeutic radiographers/radiation therapists

Holistic Person-Centered Care in Radiotherapy: Protocol for a Scoping Review

Holistic Person-Centered Care in Radiotherapy: Protocol for a Scoping Review (Preprint)

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