4th-year resident in Medical Oncology
📍 Azienda Ospedaliera Sant'Andrea, Roma
Grant received: €2.900Quantifying the "time patients spend" on outpatient cancer care — visits, tests, treatments, waiting — as an under-recognised quality-of-life metric. Time toxicity is a dimension of chronic burden that affects treatment adherence and quality of life.
This study aims to provide a systematic assessment of the time required for outpatient cancer care and its impact on the daily lives of patients and their caregivers. The results may help identify areas for improvement in care pathways and suggest interventions to reduce the time burden, with the goal of improving patients' quality of life and cancer care overall.
The data collected will be used to: quantify time toxicity, by calculating the average time spent on care and identifying the main factors that influence the time burden; assess the impact on quality of life, by understanding how time toxicity affects the daily life and well-being of patients and caregivers; and identify areas for improvement, by pinpointing the system's weaknesses and proposing solutions to reduce the time burden of care.
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