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Mashup Score: 2Patient first; person first - 7 month(s) ago
A cancer patient. A cancer case. Common terms, but ones that can have a great impact on patients and their mental health. By using disease-first language such as this, one can dehumanise the patient, equating them with their disease rather than referring to them as an individual. Dehumanising and stigma-laden terminology is rife in medicine, with oncology being no exception, and blame-ridden language is too often used when referring to people at risk for or who have cancer. Although not coming from a place of malice, or indeed reflective of an intentional effort to offend, these phrases are typically used as shorthand in an effort to aid communication, but the lack of empathy and awareness that accompanies the use of such language could also be linked with apathetic attitudes.
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Mashup Score: 0Coping Strategies and Associated Symptom Burden Among Patients With Advanced Cancer - 8 month(s) ago
Few studies have examined how patients with advanced cancer cope with stress. This study evaluated coping strategies adopted by cancer patients and their relati
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Mashup Score: 1
AUTHOR’S DISCLOSURES OF POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST Integrating Palliative Care into Oncology: Location, Location, Location? The following represents disclosure information provi ded by the author of this manuscript. All relationships are considered compensated unless otherwise noted. Relationships are self-held unless noted. I = Immediate Family Member, Inst = My Institution. Relationships may not relate to the subject matter of this manuscript. For more information about ASCO’s conflict of interest
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Mashup Score: 0JPSM Controversies in Palliative care: “What is the most important, measurable goal of serious illness conversations in the ambulatory setting?” - 8 month(s) ago
There is widespread agreement that clinicians should talk to seriously ill patients and their families about their illness. However, advance directives as a quality metric have been called into question because of the lack of data that these conversations lead to goal-concordant care. The controversy has led many to re-examine the purpose of conversations with seriously ill patients and what should be discussed in ambulatory visits. In this Controversies in Palliative care, experts in palliative care review the literature and suggest both how it influences their clinical practice and what research needs to be done to clarify the controversy.
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Mashup Score: 3Preventing Future Harm: Identifying the Drivers of an Unsafe Discharge to Improve Safety on an Inpatient Oncology Service - 9 month(s) ago
Cancer Morbidity, Mortality, and Improvement Rounds is a series of articles intended to explore the unique safety risks experienced by oncology patients through the lens of quality improvement, systems and human factors engineering, and cognitive psychology. For purposes of clarity, each case focuses on a single theme, although, as is true for all medical incidents, there are almost always multiple, overlapping, contributing factors. The quality improvement paradigm used here, which focuses on root cause analyses and opportunities to improve care delivery systems, was previously outlined in this journal. This article describes the care of a young patient with aggressive breast cancer, declining performance status, and multiple hospital admissions who died shortly after being discharged home without essential medications or an adequate plan for follow-up. The patient’s death due to her malignancy was unavoidable, but she had inadequate resources before her death, leading to avoidable su
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Mashup Score: 0How Palliative Care Teams are Measured and Valued | Relative Value Units | Palliative in Practice - 10 month(s) ago
This post makes the case that Relative Value Units (RVUs) are not the most appropriate method for measuring the impact of the work of palliative care teams
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Mashup Score: 0Reducing Risks for Older Adults | Best Practices - 10 month(s) ago
This course, Reducing Risks for Older Adults, provides context and best practices for systematically identifying older adults who are at risk for poor outcomes
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Mashup Score: 0
This interactive clinical training game challenges learners to conduct a thorough clinical investigation of a patient with delirium to diagnose the cause(s).
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Mashup Score: 0Leadership Skills for Nurses | Continuing Education Courses - 11 month(s) ago
This toolkit, Leadership Skills for Nurses: A Tutorial, is a collection of continuing education courses and resources to provide nurses with building blocks for leading teams, and steering high quality, sustainable programs.
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Mashup Score: 1Symptom Management Courses - 11 month(s) ago
CAPC’s symptom management courses cover techniques for assessing and managing common sources of distress in people with serious illness, including nausea, constipation, dyspnea, depression, and anxiety.
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RT @MDRoeland: THIS - exactly. Patient first; person first - The Lancet Oncology @ASCO #pallonc #hpm https://t.co/sVFJuOx2Ir