Strats Methods Prog Design
Strategy is identified to address program objectives, and then methods are deployed to achieve the individual strategies, which are assessed for effectiveness and then either continued, altered or discontinued, depending on whether the methods achieve measurable objectives. Program objectives identified in the Problem Statement included lack of informational resources covering the entire disease trajectory and also interpretive services explaining often complex and technical medical literature; educational research on identification and measurement of quality of life during morbidity including symptom management and psychosocial quality of life, particularly also for young adults surviving transition from pediatrics to adult treatment; one-on-one partner mentoring and bereavement support; and these resources need to be included in required continuing education for oncologists and relevant care providers.
The strategy for addressing resource lack becomes to provide the resources. Methods for achieving resource adequacy include analysis and measurement of existing resources, identifying gaps including technical jargon and medical...
The Living with Brain Cancer Resource Program will fund a committee of hospice and caregiving professionals to assess existing resources, identify these gaps, compose the research plan including timelines, and prioritize need for quality of life across the entire disease trajectory, transition from pediatric to adult treatment, and end of life and bereavement, in three recommendations to the Foundation. The Foundation will then underwrite research to fill these identified gaps as resources, costs and benefits determine as per the committee's priorities. Deliverable includes three committee recommendations for needed research, after which the committee will disband. A second committee comprised of medical educators from regional research institutions will recommend best practices for deploying the new primary materials and translated existing literature into required continuing education…
