Consuming Patients' Days: Time Spent on Ambulatory Appointments by People With Cancer

CONCLUSION: Patients often spent several hours pursuing ambulatory cancer care on a given day. Accounting for opportunity time costs and the coordination of activities around ambulatory care, these results highlight the substantial time burdens of cancer care, and support the notion that many days with ambulatory health care contact may represent "lost days."PMID:38339991 | DOI:10.1093/oncolo/oyae016

Source: The Oncologist - February 10, 2024 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Sana Kagalwalla Alexander K Tsai Manju George Anna Waldock Sydney Davis Patricia Jewett Rachel I Vogel Ishani Ganguli Christopher Booth Stacie B Dusetzina Gabrielle B Rocque Anne H Blaes Arjun Gupta Source Type: research