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Organizational Strategies for Providing Cancer Palliative Care to Many

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Purpose

Hospitals and healthcare organizations are today operating in an extremely competitive environment, with increasing pressure to improve quality while reducing costs. In responding to this dynamic situation, transformation of any organization requires the will to organize delivery around the needs of patients.

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Providing palliative care to the many who require it needs the value agenda to be formulated based on mutually reinforcing components. Here we present an overview of the framework for a palliative care department in a comprehensive cancer center, which includes different levels that are embedded within a comprehensive system. Detailed information on each level is presented, followed by a discussion of quality of care, as an integrating theme for the framework.

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The chapter concludes by detailing the benefits that a comprehensive cancer palliative care center provides to a country’s healthcare efforts through service, education, research, and advocacy.

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  1. Department of Palliative Medicine, Tata Memorial Hospital, Tata Memorial Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India

    Arunangshu Ghoshal, Anuja Damani, Jayita Deodhar & Mary Ann Muckaden

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AG and MAM have made substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, and analysis and interpretation of data; AG, AD, JKD, and MAM have been involved in drafting the manuscript and revising it critically for important intellectual content; and AG, AD, JKD, and MAM have given final approval of the version to be published.

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Ghoshal, A., Damani, A., Deodhar, J. et al. Organizational Strategies for Providing Cancer Palliative Care to Many. Curr Oncol Rep 23, 62 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11912-021-01061-7

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