Development of a screening tool to improve the referral of patients with breast and gynecological cancer to outpatient palliative care.

CONCLUSION: The use of referral criteria has the potential to significantly increase the number of timely palliative care referral. Further research is needed to test the implementation of these criteria.
PMID: 32362569 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Gynecologic Oncology - April 29, 2020 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Paiva CE, Paiva BSR, Menezes D, Zanini LE, Ciorlia JB, Miwa MU, Hui D Tags: Gynecol Oncol Source Type: research