ESTRO 2024 - Abstract Book

S2805

Interdisciplinary - Health economics & health services research

ESTRO 2024

Conclusion:

Through a co-creative approach involving a multidisciplinary group of key players, including patient representatives, we successfully restructured interorganisational care pathways for lung and oesophagus cancer. It is vital to understand what patients genuinely consider crucial in their patient journey across several healthcare organisations, especially considering the necessity for patient travel and the transfer to another care team. Therefore, we have emphasised the importance of including moments of shared decision making in the care pathway among other important aspects such as lead time. The outline of this care pathway annex patient journey can serve as a blueprint for similar collaborative initiatives among radiotherapy centres and other healthcare organisations, aiming to enhance patient accessibility to expensive technologies at affordable costs. Additional quantitative and qualitative research will be conducted to evaluate the perceived and objective enhancements for both patients and radiation oncologists.