Reflections on the Past Decade in Evidence-Based Practice Within the Children’s Oncology Group

Duffy EA, Hooke MC, Landier W. Reflections on the Past Decade in Evidence-Based Practice Within the Children’s Oncology Group. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol Nurs. 2024 Mar-Apr;41(2):129-139. doi: 10.1177/27527530231222827. Epub 2024 Mar 4. PubMed PMID: 38437793; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11145516.

The Children’s Oncology Group (COG) is the only National Cancer Institute–supported clinical trials organization focused exclusively on childhood and adolescent cancer research. The COG Nursing Discipline Committee has embedded the tenets of evidence-based practice (EBP) into clinical trials nursing in order to standardize the nursing care delivered to children enrolled on these trials. The COG nursing EBP initiative is aimed at developing evidence-based clinical resources and tools to provide guidance to clinicians regarding topics relevant to the provision of cancer treatment for patients enrolled on COG clinical trials from diagnosis through survivorship. A rigorous, evidence-based process designed to guide development of the evidence-based clinical tools and resources within the COG nursing discipline was developed and was implemented with the first nurse expert team beginning in 2012.