Daytime chemotherapy is increasingly recognized by patients as a new health care model. Cancer patients can receive chemotherapy easily through "daytime hospitalization and convalesce at home in the evening", which can not only relieve hospitalized difficulty of cancer patients who need chemotherapy, but also avoid emotional tension caused by hospitalization.

Daytime Oncology Chemotherapy Centre in Eastern Division of Renji Hospital, as an important part of day-hospital health care system in our hospital, is a public platform directed by medical department. It’s opened to all tumor-associated departments in the hospital and its daily medical work is in the charged of Department of Oncology. Since its establishment and trial operation from May 2014, it has treated patients from departments such as oncology, gastrointestinal surgery, biliary and pancreatic surgery and others, to carry out chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and “short frequent fast" treatment such as bone repair therapy. The average number of discharged patients is about 300 monthly. The overall running is smooth, which also wins the praise of the majority of patients.

Daytime Chemotherapy Center has the following working features:

1. Big audience: suitable for inclusion of all patients in good physical condition who need chemotherapy including neoadjuvant chemotherapy, adjuvant chemotherapy and rescue chemotherapy, and the disease type can involve all departments carrying out tumor chemotherapy.

2. Simple process: after following the process of day ward, receiving related necessary blood tests in the clinic in advance to exclude contraindications of chemotherapy, patients can admit for hospitalization issued by a doctor from respective department in the hospital. The patients can start chemotherapy on the day of admission, and discharge after chemotherapy on the same day. This greatly reduces the length of hospital stay of patients and simplifies the procedures, but also significantly reduces the workload of doctors from the relevant sections and improves work efficiency.

3. Quality assurance: different from outpatient chemotherapy, Daytime Oncology Chemotherapy Center is equipped with senior physicians with years of experience in cancer diagnosis and treatment. The physicians stay all day to guarantee the routine medical quality in the center. Moreover, Daytime Oncology Chemotherapy Center and Department of Oncology ward implement integrated management. So if severe adverse reactions occur, the patients may go through the green channel to the oncology ward for further treatment.

4. Professional Care: carefully selected by Nursing Department, set up by intravenous infusion nurse specialists, associate chief nurse Xiaoxia Qiu, there are many senior oncology nurse specialists who are experienced in intravenous infusion, observation and handling of side effects of chemotherapy.

5. Comfortable environment: a total land area of about 200 square feet, elegantly furnished, configured with large, comfortable and adjustable reclining sofa; with quiet environment to ensure good rest of patients during treatment.

With the vigorous promotion of multi-disciplinary team mode for joint treatment of neoplastic diseases in our hospital, Daytime Oncology Chemotherapy Center plays an increasingly central role as an important public platform. Under the plan and coordination of Medical Department, the Nursing Department and the Logistics Department, the strong medical support guarantee led by director of Department of Oncology Shuiping Tu will benefit more cancer patients. At the same time, the establishment of this public platform, not only provides new development space for surgical departments to "adjusting structure, promoting transformation", but also adds new momentum for the development of tumor-associated departments. (Correspondent Xingrong Gong, Lei Tang / Translator Weiwei Zhang)