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Facility Characteristics and Quality of Lung Cancer Care in an Integrated Health Care System [PDF]
Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 2014 In a national, integrated health care system, we sought to identify facility-level attributes associated with better quality of lung cancer care.Adherence to 23 quality indicators across four domains (Diagnosis and Staging, Treatment, Supportive Care, End-of-Life Care) was assessed through abstraction of electronic records from 4804 lung cancer ...
Ryoo, Joan J. +7 more
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JMIR Research Protocols, 2023 BackgroundTimely delivery of high-quality cancer care to all patients is barely achieved in South Africa and many other low- and middle-income countries, mainly due to poor care coordination and access to care services.
Buhle Lubuzo +2 more
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Information interventions for orienting patients and their carers to cancer care facilities [PDF]
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2010 Cancer patients experience distress and anxiety related to their diagnosis, treatment and the unfamiliar cancer centre. Strategies with the aim of orienting patients to a cancer care facility may improve patient outcomes. Although meeting patients' information needs at different stages is important, there is little agreement about the type of ...
Chan, Ray, Webster, Joan, Hall, Jenny
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Revista Peruana de Investigación en Salud, 2022 Objective: To describe microbiological characteristics of infections in pediatric patients with cancer in a reference center of the Colombian coffee region, 2014-2016. Materials and methods.
Mariana Blanco-Betancur +5 more
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Disparities in access to palliative care facilities for patients with and without cancer: A retrospective review [PDF]
Palliative Medicine, 2021 Background: To date, little is known about the characteristics of patients who are admitted to a palliative care bed for end-of-life care. Previous data suggest that there are disparities in access to palliative care services based on age, sex, diagnosis, and socioeconomic status, but it is unclear whether these
Christine Lau +5 more
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Health Expectations, 2022 Background Peer support is increasingly recognized as crucial for improving health and psychosocial outcomes in oncological care. The integration of cancer self‐help groups (SHGs) into cancer care facilities has gained importance in recent years.
Elâ Ziegler +4 more
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Brazilian Journal of Oncology, 2023 Despite the absence of data regarding direct costs for healthcare, oncological patients from the Brazilian Unified Public Healthcare System often face significant financial burden due to out-of-pocket costs associated with their treatment.
José Favoreto-Neto +3 more
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Al Ameen Journal of Medical Sciences, 2020 The higher incidence of cancer cases are reported in rural India and are at the alarming rate because of changing lifestyles and urbanization of rural India. This is due lack of adequate cancer facilities available in rural India [1].
Pandurang G. Chougule
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Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care, 2012 Breast cancer is a leading cause of mortality in women throughout the world. Rural women have a higher risk of dying from breast cancer than do their urban counterparts.
Rebecca J. Rudel
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Infectio, 2020 Objective: We aimed to describe the microbiological characteristics of infections in patients from an oncological center during 2.014-2.016. Methods: In this cross-sectional descriptive study, a total of 7.837 cultures corresponding to 1.216 patients ...
José W. Martínez
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