Use of Palliative Care Services in a Tertiary Cancer Center
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Use of Palliative Care Services in a Tertiary Cancer Center
BACKGROUND Despite increasing prevalence of palliative care (PC) services in cancer centers, most referrals to the service occur exceedingly late in the illness trajectory. Over the years, we have made several attempts to promote earlier patient access to our PC program, such as changing the name of our service from PC to supportive care (SC). This study was conducted to determine the use of PC...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Oncologist
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1083-7159,1549-490X
DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.2015-0234