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Responding to Acute Care Needs of Patients With Cancer: Recent Trends Across Continents.
Review in The oncologist, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.
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20 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Death and Dying in the Emergency Department: A New Model for End-of-Life Care.Journal of advanced nursing · 2025Article
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- Mixed methods scoping review of patients' experiences of urgent and emergency cancer care.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025Article
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- Frequency of anticancer drug use at the end of life: a scoping review.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2024Article
- Approach to Cancer Pain Management in Emergency Departments: Comparison of General and Oncology Based Settings.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Recognizing the emergency department's role in oncologic care: a review of the literature on unplanned acute care.Emergency cancer care · 2022Review
- A hybrid model of acute unscheduled cancer care provided by a hospital-based acute care clinic and the emergency department: a descriptive study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021Article
- Effective Patient Selection for an Oncology-Dedicated Emergency Service: A Retrospective Study.JCO oncology practice · 2021Article
- Evaluation of Oncology Hospital at Home: Unplanned Health Care Utilization and Costs in the Huntsman at Home Real-World Trial.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2021Article
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- Reducing emergency department utilization for outpatient acute cancer symptoms: An integrative review on the advent of urgent cancer clinics.Canadian oncology nursing journal = Revue canadienne de nursing oncologique · 2021Article
- Determinants of quality of life among family caregivers of adult cancer patients in a resource-limited setting.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2020Article
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- [Analysis of non-scheduled consultations in patients with digestive neoplasms].Revista espanola de salud publica · 2019Article
- National characteristics of Emergency Department visits by patients with cancer in the United States.The American journal of emergency medicine · 2018Article
- An Association of Cancer Physicians' strategy for improving services and outcomes for cancer patients.Ecancermedicalscience · 2016Article
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Abstract
Remarkable progress has been made over the past decade in cancer medicine. Personalized medicine, driven by biomarker predictive factors, novel biotherapy, novel imaging, and molecular targeted therapeutics, has improved outcomes. Cancer is becoming a chronic disease rather than a fatal disease for many patients. However, despite this progress, there is much work to do if patients are to receive continuous high-quality care in the appropriate place, at the appropriate time, and with the right specialized expert oversight. Unfortunately, the rapid expansion of therapeutic options has also generated an ever-increasing burden of emergency care and encroaches into end-of-life palliative care. Emergency presentation is a common consequence of cancer and of cancer treatment complications. It represents an important proportion of new presentations of previously undiagnosed malignancy. In the U.K. alone, 20%-25% of new cancer diagnoses are made following an initial presentation to the hospital emergency department, with a greater proportion in patients older than 70 years. This late presentation accounts for poor survival outcomes and is often associated with poor patient experience and poorly coordinated care. The recent development of acute oncology services in the U.K. aims to improve patient safety, quality of care, and the coordination of care for all patients with cancer who require emergency access to care, irrespective of the place of care and admission route. Furthermore, prompt management coordinated by expert teams and access to protocol-driven pathways have the potential to improve patient experience and drive efficiency when services are fully established. The challenge to leaders of acute oncology services is to develop bespoke models of care, appropriate to local services, but with an opportunity for acute oncology teams to engage cancer care strategies and influence cancer care and delivery in the future. This will aid the integration of highly specialized cancer treatment with high-quality care close to home and help avoid hospital admission.
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