Guidelines and collaborations

Research is great, but unless it reaches the hands and hearts of the clinical teams caring for patients it won't make a difference.

Clinical practice guidelines

Clinical practice guidelines (often just called 'Guidelines') are carefully constructed summaries of the best research evidence turned into suggestions for how best to manage different problems patients might face.

The Candlelighters Supportive Care Research Centre has been involved in numeroux guidelines, many of which are massive collaborations across the globe. We link up with POGO (the Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario) for much of this work. Read more about POGO.

You can read guidelines on the following topics that we have been involved in:

Improving guideline development

We're not just produced those guidelines though. Our researchers have worked on improving the way guidelines are developed and how to help clinical teams follow them more closely.

Read an example of this work about implementing 'magic lights' photobiomodulation.

Collaborations with national funders

There are also lots of collaborations with national funders, including the largest organisation in the UK, the NIHR.

Developing research and funding collaborations makes the research reach further, work better and more quickly, and develop people and techniques to improve the 'how' as well as the 'what' we do.

To date, three PhDs in supportive care have been funded. You can read more about this work by following the links below.

SCAN-ME

Investigating the value of follow-up surveillance imaging for children and young people with two types of brain tumours.

Magic Lights

Reducing pain and discomfort of mucositis using "Magic Lights" (photobiomodulation).