Impact of a supportive care service for cancer outpatients: management and reduction of hospitalizations. Preliminary results of an integrated model of care

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• 作者：A. Antonuzzo ; E. Vasile ; A. Sbrana ; M. Lucchesi ; L. Galli…
• 关键词：Supportive care ; Unplanned hospitalizations ; Emergency room access ; Hospitalization costs
• 刊名：Supportive Care in Cancer
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：25
• 期：1
• 页码：209-212
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• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Oncology; Nursing; Nursing Research; Pain Medicine; Rehabilitation Medicine;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1433-7339
• 卷排序：25

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PurposeSupportive care in oncology is a primary need for every oncology department nowadays. In 2012, in our institution, a dedicated supportive care service (SCS) was created in order to deal with any need our on-treatment patients might have (e.g. tumour-related or treatment-related symptoms). We hypothesized that this service had a positive impact on the number of unplanned hospitalizations; to confirm our hypothesis, we decided to review admission data in 2011 and 2012.