Challenges with the Emergency Departments Use among Cancer Patients; a Mini Review
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Abstract
According to the studies the rate of emergency departments use among cancer patients exceed among those of the general population; however there are differences in study populations by cancer type, initial treatments, socioeconomic status, disease stages, and health insurance status and so on. Patients' symptoms and severity of complications are varied as well. The emergency departments are actively involved in different stages of cancer management such as primary diagnosis, ongoing treatments and end-of-life period. Cancer patients in their end of life period usually have more serious complications and need more specialized cares, as well as those received chemotherapy and surgical treatments. Understanding the reasons of such visits could be useful in the development of dedicated interventions for preventing un-necessary emergency department visits by cancer patients which is discussed in this mini review.
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3. Young A, Marshall E, Krzyzanowska M, Robinson B, Brown S, Collinson F, Seligmann J, Abbas A, Rees A, Swinson D, Neville-Webbe H. Responding to acute care needs of patients with cancer: Recent trends across continents. The oncologist. 2016 Mar 1;21(3):301-7.
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10. Barbera L, Taylor C, Dudgeon D. Why do patients with cancer visit the emergency department near the end of life?. Cmaj. 2010 Apr 6;182(6):563-8.
11. Rivera DR, Gallicchio L, Brown J, Liu B, Kyriacou DN, Shelburne N. Trends in adult cancer–related emergency de-
partment utilization: an analysis of data from the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample. JAMA oncology. 2017 Oct
1;3(10):e172450.
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cancer center emergency department and in general emergency departments countywide and nationwide. PloS one.
2018 Feb 20;13(2):e0191658.
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14. Considine J, Livingston P, Bucknall T, Botti M. A review of the role of emergency nurses in management of chemother apy-related complications. Journal of clinical nursing. 2009Sep;18(18):2649-55.
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| Cancer emergency Emergency Department Acute cancer representations Emergency cancer management End-of-life care | ||
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Mobasheri M, Behtar R, Sadighi S. Challenges with the Emergency Departments Use among Cancer Patients; a Mini Review. Basic Clin Cancer Res. 2019;11(2):103-107.
