title: Meeting the challanges in today's outpatient oncology setting: a case study.
abstract: Physicians and staff in outpatient oncology settings are feeling besieged as healthcare trends accelerate. One of these is to provide a greater number and variety of treatments on an outpatient basis. The second is the shift from indemnity insurance to a managed care environment to help control the costs. The challenge at the Center for Cancer Care at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center in Rockford, Illinois, was to create processes that increased efficiency, dealt with expanded patient caseloads, improved the level of care provided and took into account the shortage of oncology nurses.
authors.affiliation: OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center, Rockford, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: Jeannie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: O'Leary
authors.forename: Judy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Williamson
mesh_terms: D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019985:Benchmarking; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007087:Illinois; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology; D009859:Oncology Nursing; D016522:Oncology Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D019114:Remote Consultation; D014218:Triage