The Critical Role of Clinical Practice Guidelines and Indicators in High-Quality Survivorship After Childhood Cancer

摘要

Physicians involved in the care of childhood cancer survivors, and survivors, should be aware of the health problems that survivors may experience and provide high-quality, long-term follow-up care based on CPGs. The cyclical pattern of evidence generation, implementation, and evaluation drives current health care practices and systems. CPGs are essential for health care providers to translate research findings into clinical practice, and for patients to make well-informed health care decisions. The development and use of quality indicators are important to evaluate the impact of CPGs on the quality of care and survivor health outcomes. International collaboration among clinicians, researchers, guideline developers, patients, and survivors is essential in bridging the gap between research and clinical practice and evaluation of the quality of care. In this way we can optimize care and thereby the health and quality of life of childhood cancer survivors.