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Interdisciplinary - Patient involvement
ESTRO 2026
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rate among patients with oral cancer from 20% to 80% by the end of our project . Patients responded positively to health care professional’s efforts of creating awareness on oral hygiene practices, daily patient monitoring and frequent reminders on seeing oral hygiene posters on bedside in the wards. Further, we have devised "sustainability plans" for future - continuous monitoring of resident doctors, nurses's training and adopting oral hygiene checklist as part of quality control program at our hospital. Conclusion: Improving compliance to oral hygiene practices will translate into reduction in oral mucositis, infections and might reduce radiation treatment breaks. Also, we found a dramatic decrease in malodor in wards. Our study proves ‘small’ daily interventions can create‘ big’ impact. References: 1.Hashim D, Sartori S, Brennan P, et al. The role of oral hygiene in head and neck cancer: results from International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology (INHANCE) consortium. Ann Oncol. 2016;27(8):1619– 1625.2.Hong, C.H.L.; Gueiros, L.A.; Fulton, J.S.; Cheng, K.K.F.; Kandwal, A. Johansen, J.; Ameringer, S.; Kataoka, T.; et al. Systematic review of basic oral care for the management of oral mucositis in cancer patients and clinical practice guidelines. Support. Care Cancer 2019, 27, 3949–3967.4.Jacopo Lanzetti *, Federica Finotti, Maria Savarino, Management of Oral Hygiene in Head- Neck Cancer Patients Undergoing Oncological Surgery and Radiotherapy: A Systematic Review,Dent. J. 2023, 11, 83 Keywords: oralcancers,oral hygiene,quality improvement study Cancer Patient and Family Perspectives for Designing Patient-Centered Electronic Patient Portal Tahani Nageeti 1 , Najat Salem Albeladi 2 , Taghreed Hasan Nageeti 3 1 Radiation Oncology, King Abdulla Medical City- Holy Capital- Makkah Health Cluster, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. 2 Health Promotion Department, King Abdulla Medical City- Holy Capital- Makkah Health Cluster, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. 3 Social Services Department, King Abdulla Medical City- Holy Capital- Makkah Health Cluster, Makkah, Saudi Arabia Digital Poster 333 Purpose/Objective: To evaluate perceptions, expectations, and attitudes of cancer patients and caregivers toward a patient- centered electronic patient portal (PP), and to assess whether patient characteristics, health literacy, and empowerment can predict these outcomes.
A National Cancer Grid-Quality Improvement Project (NCG-EQuiP) to optimize Oral Health practices in Oral Cancer Patients undergoing Chemoradiotherapy. Sowmiya Sampathrajan 1 , Daniel Raj Joseph Thangasamy 2 , Jasmine Ruby 3 , Doshy Joseph 3 , Ramaniah Kaluvoya 1 , Jennifer T 3 , Shara Beula Babu 3 1 Radiation Oncology, Cancer Institute(WIA), Adyar, Chennai, India. 2 Palliative medicine, Cancer Institute(WIA), Adyar, chennai, India. 3 nursing, Cancer Institute(WIA), Adyar, chennai, India Purpose/Objective: Oral cavity cancers are the most common cancers among men in India and overall second most common cause of mortality next to breast cancers. Radiation combined with/without chemotherapy remains one of the main treatments and maintenance of good oral hygiene is essential to prevent/limit oral complications. Preliminary survey conducted at our centre found only 20% of patients undergoing chemoradiation had compliance to oral hygiene practices advised. The goal is to improve patient compliance to oral hygiene practices from current 20% to 50% by end of 6 months through NCG-EQuIP (National Cancer Grid- Enable Quality Improve Patient care) project. Material/Methods: We prospectively studied all oral cancer patients admitted in our ward from october 2024 to March 2025. We observed the usual process of oral hygiene practices with Benzydamine gargles and arrived at the process map.Then, we identified pitfalls and root causes for poor compliance by doing "fish-bone analysis". We arrived at various patient and health professionals- related factors- lack of knowledge, monitoring etc., identified top most contributing factors as Key-drivers by plotting a Parieto chart. We devised specific interventions to overcome these key- drivers like “Educating patients” by creating a poster about oral hygiene,displaying it in all wards, monthly ‘support group’ meeting for patients and caregivers. Monitoring patient compliance by appointing specific "Oral hygiene Co-ordinator" who fills the “Oral hygiene-Checklist” daily ,recording number of times every patient gargles etc. Creating awareness for health care professionals by developing standard operating procedure(SOP) for oral hygiene,regular training of new nurses, resident doctors posted in ward about importance of hygiene practices and improving communication among them . Results: About102 oral cancer patients were assesed by oral hygiene co-ordinator.After the above mentioned interventions, we observed steep rise in compliance
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