Slone Jeremy S, Ishigami Elise, Mehta Parth S
Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Centers, Houston, TX, USA; Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Centers, Houston, TX, USA.
Glob Pediatr Health. 2016 Mar 14;3:2333794X16635002. doi: 10.1177/2333794X16635002. eCollection 2016.
Delayed presentation of children with cancer is a significant barrier to improving the survival from children's cancer in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Botswana, a country of approximately 2 million people in southern Africa, has only 1 pediatric cancer treatment program, based at Princess Marina Hospital (PMH) in the capital of Gaborone. A pediatric cancer recognition training program was developed that reached 50% of the government hospitals in Botswana teaching 362 health care workers how to recognize and refer children with cancer to PMH. Through evaluation of attendees, limitations in pediatric cancer training and general knowledge of pediatric cancer were identified. Attendees demonstrated improvement in their understanding of pediatric cancer and the referral process to PMH following the workshop.
在低收入和中等收入国家（LMICs），癌症患儿就诊延迟是提高儿童癌症生存率的重大障碍。博茨瓦纳是非洲南部一个约有200万人口的国家，只有一个儿科癌症治疗项目，设在首都哈博罗内的玛丽娜公主医院（PMH）。该国制定了一个儿科癌症识别培训项目，覆盖了博茨瓦纳50%的政府医院，培训了362名医护人员如何识别癌症患儿并将其转诊至PMH。通过对参加者的评估，发现了儿科癌症培训的局限性以及对儿科癌症的一般知识欠缺。参加者在研讨会后对儿科癌症及转诊至PMH的流程的理解有所改善。
