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Effectiveness and efficiency of nurse-given cancer patient education
Abstract
Increasing health care costs make it imperative that nurse-given
cancer education programs be evaluated according to their
economic effectiveness and efficiency. The purpose of this research
was the comparison of two programs of nurse-given education at a
Canadian cancer centre examining patients’ knowledge of
chemotherapy and associated side effects, the number of self-care
behaviours for side effects, the degree of extra health resource
utilization, patient and nurse satisfaction with teaching programs,
and the nursing time needed for teaching. Results show that the
experimental intervention is more effective and more efficient than
the usual well-organized patient education program at this centre.
These study findings begin to address the knowledge gap regarding
the cost-effectiveness of a critical component of ambulatory cancer
nursing.
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