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ArticleJournal of the advanced practitioner in oncology2021

Early Palliative Care for Oncology Patients: How APRNs Can Take the Lead.

Heidi Mason, Mary Beth Derubeis, Beth Hesseltine

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Article in Journal of the advanced practitioner in oncology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Heidi MasonUniversity of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Mary Beth DerubeisUniversity of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Beth HesseltineUniversity of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPatients with cancer need expert and multidisciplinary care throughout the trajectory of their illness. Palliative care should be instituted early in the course of their disease. Early palliative care enables patients and their families to control physical, psychological, social, and spiritual symptoms of the disease. In our current health-care system, early palliative care is not being integrated due to a lack of education of providers and nurses, an infrastructure that does not support palliative medicine, and poor communication skills among practitioners. METHODS AND

resultsThe Palliative Care Quiz for Nursing (PCQN) completed by nurse practitioners at a large Midwest cancer center found that those nurse practitioners had a poor understanding of the basic precepts of palliative care. This is consistent with the current literature.

conclusionAdvanced practice nurses should be educated on the principles of palliative care, as they are perfectly situated to advance the integration of early palliative care in the oncology setting.

Identifiers

PMID34430058
PMCPMC8299795
OpenAlexW3191336549

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