Follow-up Care After Treatment for Endometrial Cancer

Research Question How has this transfer in follow-up care impacted performance indicators?

• Volume of follow-up care transferred
• Percentage of women, who have required a re-entry consultation
• Fiscal implication of this transfer of follow-up care

Patient stakeholders:

• What are women's perceptions of the transition of follow-up care?
• What are women's supportive care needs during the transition of follow-up care and ongoing needs?

Primary Care Practitioner stakeholders:

• What are the primary care practitioners' perceptions of the process of transition of follow-up care?
• What are the primary care practitioners' educational needs?
• What are the primary care practitioners' perceptions of the process of re-entry for in women with suspected recurrence?

Tertiary Centre: Health care providers stakeholders

o What are the perceptions of tertiary health care providers about the transition of follow-up care?

Inclusion criteria

• Participants- women diagnosed with endometrial cancer:

• 18 years of age or older.
• speak English or French
• who have been treated (surgery and/or radiation therapy) at TOH.
• who have been discharged from follow-up in the cancer centre in the past 6 months.
• Participants-primary care provider practitioner:

• providing follow-up care to at least one woman with endometrial cancer
• Participants- health care providers at the tertiary centre :

• physicians, nurses or allied health care providers whose primary responsibility are to provide care to women with gynecological cancer.

Exclusion criteria