ArticleJournal of oncology practice2017
Practice Patterns, Attitudes, and Barriers to Palliative Care Consultation by Gynecologic Oncologists.
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- Incorporating palliative care principles to improve patient care and quality of life in urologic oncology.Nature reviews. Urology · 2021Review
- Geographic Variation in Knowledge of Palliative Care Among US Adults: Findings From 2018 Health Information National Trends Survey.The American journal of hospice & palliative care · 2021Article
- Racial and ethnic disparities in palliative care utilization among gynecological cancer patients.Gynecologic oncology · 2021Article
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- Factors Associated with Loss to Follow-up among Cervical Cancer Patients in Rwanda.Annals of global health · 2020Article
- Theory-Based Development of an Implementation Intervention Using Community Health Workers to Increase Palliative Care Use.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2020Article
- Evolving Definitions of Palliative Care: Upstream Migration or Confusion?Current treatment options in oncology · 2020Review
- Palliative care in everyday practice of radiation oncologists : Results from a web-based survey among medical members of the German Society for Radiation Oncology (DEGRO).Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2019Article
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Abstract
purposeWe sought to describe practice patterns, attitudes, and barriers to the integration of palliative care services by gynecologic oncologists.
methodsMembers of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology were electronically surveyed regarding their practice of incorporating palliative care services and to identify barriers for consultation. Descriptive statistics were used, and two-sample z-tests of proportions were performed to compare responses to related questions.
resultsOf the 145 respondents, 71% were attending physicians and 58% worked at an academic medical center. The vast majority (92%) had palliative care services available for consultation at their hospital; 48% thought that palliative care services were appropriately used, 51% thought they were underused, and 1% thought they were overused. Thirty percent of respondents thought that palliative care services should be incorporated at first recurrence, whereas 42% thought palliative care should be incorporated when prognosis for life expectancy is ≤ 6 months. Most participants (75%) responded that palliative care consultation is reasonable for symptom control at any stage of disease. Respondents were most likely to consult palliative care services for pain control (53%) and other symptoms (63%). Eighty-three percent of respondents thought that communicating prognosis is the primary team's responsibility, whereas the responsibilities for pain and symptom control, resuscitation status, and goals of care discussions were split between the primary team only and both teams. The main barrier for consulting palliative care services was the concern that patients and families would feel abandoned by the primary oncologist (73%). Ninety-seven percent of respondents answered that palliative care services are useful to improve patient care.
conclusionThe majority of gynecologic oncologists perceived palliative care as a useful collaboration that is underused. Fear of perceived abandonment by the patient and family members was identified as a significant barrier to palliative care consult.
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