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The electronic nursing clinical pathway was fully applied, and the evidence-based practice achievements of cancer patient symptom management was integrated into the electronic nursing clinical pathway in Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center. Taking " comprehensive evaluation before chemotherapy" , " chemotherapy-related nausea and vomiting" , " chemotherapy-related diarrhea" as examples, the authors introduced the application of evidence-based practice project in nursing clinical pathway. Through the implementation of the project, a standardized operation flow of electronic nursing clinical pathway was formed; The nurses introduced new nursing tools, new processes and new technologies in the process of project implementation; Meanwhile, the project reduced the incidence of adverse symptoms and shortened the hospitalization time of patients. The project achieved the goal of " win-win" to reduce the burden of patients′ disease and improve the efficiency of tumor care.
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Objective To evaluate the effect of nurse-led follow-up on medication adherence and quality of life for breast cancer patients receiving adjuvant hormonal therapy.Methods A randomized controlled trial was conducted with 157 patients in the intervention group and 154 in the control group.A self-design web-database medication monitoring platform was designed for managing patients such as texting,reminding and mailing.Participants were randomized to follow-up care as usual(yearly outpatient clinic visits) or nurse-led telephone follow-up(monthly consultation with structured intervention).Telephone follow-up was performed by four trained breast care nurses (BCN) and consisted of a semi-structured interview including managing the side-effects of endocrine therapy,compliance with hormonal therapy and an open discussion of these issues.Patients' medication adherence and quality of life were evaluated by Morisky Medication Adherence Questionnaire(MAQ) and FACT-B at baseline and 3,6 18 and 24 months,respectively.Results The Nurse-led telephone follow-up did not significantly improve the quality of life(P＞0.05).MAQ score in the intervention group was significantly greater than that in the control group(P＜0.05) at 3,6,18 and 24 months.Conclusion Nurse-led follow-up using computer-based monitoring system can improve patients' medication adherence,but there is no obvious increase in quality of life.
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Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of aerobic exercise on quality of life in breast cancer survivors.Methods Electronic databases were searched.Randomized controlled trials in which aerobic exercise was compared with controls regarding quality of life in breast cancer survivors were included.Results We analyzed 12 RCT studies.Aerobic exercise significantly improved quality of life in breast cancer survivors.Seven studies which used FACT-B scale concluded that aerobic exercise could significantly improve psychological emotion,social/family function and breast-related function.The aerobic exercise aiming at breast cancer survivors who had already finished all the therapies except endocrine therapy of breast cancer,mainly comprised of short-period intervention programs (within 24 weeks),and was advised to be executed under professionals' supervision to ensure safety.Conclusion Aerobic exercise could effectively improve quality of life in breast cancer survivors,especially in aspects of psychological emotion,social/family function and breast-related function.