| Advanced lung cancer patients' experience with continuity of care and supportive care needs. | |
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PMID: 23274923 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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As cancer care becomes increasingly complex, the ability to coordinate this care is more difficult for health care providers, patients and their caregivers alike. Despite the widely recognized need for improving continuity and coordination of care, the relationship of continuity of care with patient outcomes has yet to be elucidated. Our study's main finding is that the Continuity and Coordination subscale of the widely used Picker System of Ambulatory Cancer Care Survey is able to distinguish between lung cancer patients with unmet supportive care needs and those without. Specifically, this study shows a new association between this widely implemented continuity and coordination survey and the 'psychological needs' domain, as well as the 'health system and information' domains of supportive care needs. The finding provides support for the idea that interventions to improve continuity may impact tangible indicators of patient care such as supportive care needs being met. The study focuses attention on continuity of care as an important aspect of optimizing outcomes in cancer care. |
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Amna Husain; Lisa Barbera; Doris Howell; Rahim Moineddin; Andrea Bezjak; Jonathan Sussman |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-12-29 |
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Title: Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer Volume: - ISSN: 1433-7339 ISO Abbreviation: Support Care Cancer Publication Date: 2012 Dec |
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Created Date: 2012-12-31 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9302957 Medline TA: Support Care Cancer Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Division of Palliative Care, University of Toronto, Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care, Mount Sinai Hospital, 60 Murray St., 4th Floor, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5T 3L9, amna.husain@utoronto.ca. |
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