Characteristics of Unscheduled and Scheduled Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic Patients at a Comprehensive Cancer Center

Characteristics of Unscheduled and Scheduled Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic Patients at a Comprehensive Cancer Center

There is limited literature regarding outpatient palliative care and factors associated with unscheduled clinic visits. To compare characteristics of patients with unscheduled vs. scheduled outpatient palliative care clinic visits. Medical records of 183 unscheduled cancer new outpatients and 104 un...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of pain and symptom management 2018-05, Vol.55 (5), p.1327-1334
Hauptverfasser: Azhar, Ahsan, Wong, Angelique N., Cerana, Agustina A., Balankari, Vishidha R., Adabala, Madhuri, Liu, Diane D., Williams, Janet L., Bruera, Eduardo
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Sprache:eng
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Anxiety
Cancer
Cancer therapies
Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale
Emotional disorders
Fatigue
Medical records
Mental depression
Morphine
Narcotics
Nausea
Opioids
outpatient
Outpatient care facilities
Outpatients
Pain
Palliative care
Patients
Physical symptoms
Psychological distress
psychosocial distress
Psychosocial factors
Psychosocial well being
Sleepiness
Social psychology
Symptoms
unscheduled follow-ups
unscheduled new patients
Visits
Well being
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Zusammenfassung:There is limited literature regarding outpatient palliative care and factors associated with unscheduled clinic visits. To compare characteristics of patients with unscheduled vs. scheduled outpatient palliative care clinic visits. Medical records of 183 unscheduled cancer new outpatients and 104 unscheduled follow-up (FU) patients were compared with random samples of 361 and 314 scheduled new patients and FU patients, respectively. We gathered data on demographics, symptoms, daily opioid usage, and performance status. Compared with scheduled new patients, unscheduled new patients had worse Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale subscores for pain (P 
ISSN:0885-3924
1873-6513
DOI:10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2018.01.015