Regional models of care for systemic therapy: Standards for organization and delivery

17057 Background: Rapidly expanding indications for cancer systemic therapy combined with human resource and facility constraints require innovative approaches to deliver safe, patient-centred, and evidence-based care across Ontario, a province covering 1 million sq km, organized into 14 regions, each with about 1 million inhabitants. A systemic therapy project team recommended the best way to organize the delivery of ambulatory systemic therapy in Ontario. Methods: A core multidisciplinary panel reviewed the evidence and developed standards. The panel used evidence-based analysis of relevant publications, an environmental scan of other existing recommendations and expert opinion based on experience and consensus to formulate a standards document to guide treatment delivery. This was reviewed and amended by the full project team. The document was circulated to oncologists, family practitioners, internists, pharmacists, nurses and administrators who work in or have responsibility for systemic therapy in th...