TeamTalk: Improving Inter-professional Communication During Cancer Treatment

TeamTalk: Strategies to Improve Communication Structure and Quality in Low-resource Childhood Cancer Hospitals

This study focuses on improving interprofessional communication during cancer treatment, through an individual and hospital system intervention, to improve provider outcomes, patient care, and, ultimately, survival for children with cancer in low-resource settings.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Hospitals identified as being in lowest quartile of communication quality, as defined by prior cross-sectional CritCom analysis and measured as the overall CritCom score.
• All Global Alliance hospitals providing childhood cancer care will be eligible to participate.
• Individual participants will be included if they care for hospitalized children with cancer at risk of deterioration.

Exclusion Criteria:

• None