Identifying clinical practice guidelines for the supportive care of children with cancer: A report from the Children's Oncology Group

Jennifer Seelisch; Lillian Sung; Michael J Kelly; Jennifer L Raybin; Melissa Beauchemin; Christopher C Dvorak; Katherine Patterson Kelly; Michael L Nieder; Robert B Noll; Jennifer Thackray; Nicole J Ullrich; Sandra Cabral; L Lee Dupuis; Paula D Robinson

doi:10.1002/pbc.27471

Identifying clinical practice guidelines for the supportive care of children with cancer: A report from the Children's Oncology Group

Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2019 Jan;66(1):e27471. doi: 10.1002/pbc.27471. Epub 2018 Sep 26.

Authors

Jennifer Seelisch^{1

2}, Lillian Sung^{3

4}, Michael J Kelly⁵, Jennifer L Raybin⁶, Melissa Beauchemin⁷, Christopher C Dvorak⁸, Katherine Patterson Kelly⁹, Michael L Nieder^{10

11}, Robert B Noll¹², Jennifer Thackray¹³, Nicole J Ullrich¹⁴, Sandra Cabral¹, L Lee Dupuis^{3

15}, Paula D Robinson¹

Affiliations

¹ Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada.
³ Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Division of Haematology/Oncology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Pediatric Hematology Oncology, The Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁶ Children's Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
⁷ CUMC Minority Underserved NCI Community Oncology, Research Program Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York.
⁸ Division of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Benioff Children's Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, California.
⁹ Department of Nursing Science, Professional Practice, and Quality Children's National Health System, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, District of Columbia.
¹⁰ Department of Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Immunotherapy, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida.
¹¹ University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida.
¹² Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
¹³ Department of Pharmacy, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
¹⁴ Dana Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
¹⁵ Department of Pharmacy, The Hospital for Sick Children, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Abstract

Providing evidence-based supportive care for children with cancer has the potential to optimize treatment outcomes and improve quality of life. The Children's Oncology Group (COG) Supportive Care Guidelines Subcommittee conducted a systematic review to identify current supportive care clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) relevant to childhood cancer or pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant. Only 22 papers met the 2011 Institute of Medicine criteria to be considered a CPG. The results highlight the paucity of CPGs available to pediatric oncology healthcare professionals and the pressing need to create CPGs using current methodological standards.

Keywords: pediatric cancer; practice guidelines; supportive care; systematic review.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Systematic Review

MeSH terms

Child
Health Services Needs and Demand
Humans
Neoplasms / therapy*
Palliative Care / standards*
Practice Guidelines as Topic / standards*
Practice Patterns, Physicians' / standards*

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding