Supported self-management as a model for end-of-life care in the setting of malignant bowel obstruction: A qualitative study.

CONCLUSION: Outpatient SMS interventions can be successfully implemented even for rapidly fatal conditions at the end-of-life and offer significant benefit to gynecologic cancer patients with MBO. Counselling should focus on the specific trajectory of MBO, and early palliative care referrals should be standard practice.
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Source: Gynecologic Oncology - March 22, 2020 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Cusimano MC, Sajewycz K, Nelson M, Jivraj N, Lee YC, Bowering V, Oza A, Lheureux S, Ferguson SE Tags: Gynecol Oncol Source Type: research