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Published on: September 30, 2016
Developing successful models of cancer palliative care services
Marie Bakitas1, Margaret Firer Bishop, Paula Caron
1Section of Palliative Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA. marie.a.bakitas@hitchcock.org
Objectives:
This article describes successful institutionally based programs for providing high-quality palliative care to persons with cancer and their family members. Challenges and opportunities for program development are also described.
Data Sources:
Published literature from 2000 to present describing concurrent oncology palliative care clinical trials, standards, and guidelines were reviewed.
Conclusion:
Clinical trials have shown feasibility and positive outcomes and formed the basis for consensus guidelines that support concurrent oncology palliative care models.
Implications For Nursing Practice:
Oncology nurses should advocate for all patients with advanced cancer and their families to have access to concurrent oncology palliative care from the time of diagnosis with a life-limiting cancer.
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