HealthcarePediatric early warning systems for children with cancer a...

Pediatric early warning systems for children with cancer a success in Latin American Hospitals


cancer
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain

Pediatric Early Warning Systems (PEWS)—bedside tools used by nurses to assess the health of hospitalized children and identify urgent medical issues—are not widely used in resource-limited hospitals, in part due to challenges with implementation. A recent article published by Wiley online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, reports on a successful collaboration to support implementation of a PEWS for children with cancer in Latin American hospitals.

In 2017, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital partnered with pediatric oncology centers in Latin America to initiate Proyecto Escala de Valoración de Alerta Temprana (EVAT). St. Jude’s Asya Agulnik, MD, MPH, and her colleagues reported that from April 2017 to October 2021, 36 diverse hospitals from 13 countries in Latin America collectively managing more than 4,100 annual new pediatric cancer diagnoses successfully implemented PEWS through Proyecto EVAT.

Centers required an average of seven months to complete the implementation, and all of them—despite challenges of geography, language, and the COVID-19 pandemic—maintained high-quality PEWS use for up to 18 months after implementation. Across the 36 centers, more than 11,100 clinicians were trained in PEWS and more than 41,000 hospitalized had PEWS used in their care.

“This is the first multicenter, multinational study reporting a successful implementation strategy to regionally scale-up PEWS,” said Dr. Agulnik. “The strategy used by Proyecto EVAT to regionally scale-up PEWS in these 36 resource-limited centers can be generalized to facilitate implementation of other interventions that improve patient outcomes in centers of all resource levels. We hope that lessons learned from this work can broadly inform future programs to promote adoption of interventions to improve cancer outcomes globally.”

Of note, a commentary published earlier this month in CANCER summarizes the top advances in pediatric cancer over the past 12 months. These pediatric advances focus on solid tumor, brain tumor, leukemia, recurrent disease, and residual disease.


International effort in Ukraine provides a blueprint for responding to global health crises


More information:
Model for Regional Collaboration: Successful Strategy to Implement a Pediatric Early Warning System in 36 Pediatric Oncology Centers in Latin America, Cancer (2022). DOI: 10.1002/cncr.34427

Citation:
Pediatric early warning systems for children with cancer a success in Latin American Hospitals (2022, September 26)
retrieved 26 September 2022
from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-pediatric-early-children-cancer-success.html

This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no
part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only.





Original Source Link

Latest News

There Are Only Two Perfect Horror Movies, According To Rotten Tomatoes

To wit: "One Cut of the Dead" and "His House" have outstripped notable horror classics like "The Bride...

Trump is struggling to come up with the cash for a bond on his $454 million court judgment, lawyers say

Donald Trump’s lawyers told a New York appellate court Monday that it’s impossible for him to post a...

Nvidia reveals Blackwell B200 GPU, the ‘world’s most powerful chip’ for AI

Nvidia’s must-have H100 AI chip made it a multitrillion-dollar company, one that may be worth more than Alphabet...

SCOTUS Ponders Whether Biden Administration Coerced Social Media Platforms To Censor Speech

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday considered dueling interpretations of the Biden administration's interactions with social media platforms...

Must Read

All the market-moving Wall Street chatter from Monday

(This is CNBC Pro's live coverage of Monday's...
- Advertisement -

You might also likeRELATED
Recommended to you