Geriatric Assessment Summaries Facilitate Oncologist-Patient Conversations
Geriatric assessment summaries can prompt and enhance oncologist-patient conversations about functional or physical performance.
Geriatric assessment summaries can prompt and enhance oncologist-patient conversations about functional or physical performance.
Referrals were made for 7.9% of patients in the tailored screening program and 0.1% of control patients.
The patient’s prognosis should inform the decision to add full-agonist opioids to treatment.
Patients with higher dysphagia scores also experienced worse febrile neutropenia and diarrhea.
Patients with lung cancer who were treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors had worse outcomes if they received corticosteroids for palliative indications.
The novelty of immunotherapies means that physicians and patients lack extensive experience dealing with them.
This study’s information can inform policy issues, particularly the collection of patient-reported outcome data and its use in clinical practice.
Study authors suggest that oncologists and oncology providers can help design effective, personalized workplace accommodations for patients with cancer.
Patients who reported better clinician communication or an improved satisfaction with their treatment were more likely to be adherent.
Interprofessional practice provides benefits to patients, team members, and the health care system, by working collaboratively to support and assist each other.