Identifying supportive and palliative care needs in people with a recent diagnosis of thoracic cancer: acceptability of the SPARC questionnaire
| Autor: | Radka Klezlova, Sarah Coombes, Amanda Rawson, Doug Hooper, Matthew Maddocks, Andrew Wilcock, Rachel Bentley |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine medicine.medical_specialty Palliative care Referral MEDLINE Thoracic cancer Patient satisfaction Nursing Surveys and Questionnaires Humans Medicine Lung cancer Aged business.industry Palliative Care Middle Aged Thoracic Neoplasms medicine.disease England Patient Satisfaction Family medicine Needs assessment Female Primary treatment business Needs Assessment |
| Zdroj: | Thorax. 65:937-938 |
| ISSN: | 0040-6376 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/thx.2009.131243 |
| Popis: | National guidelines recommend that physical, psychological, social, spiritual and financial support needs are routinely assessed in people with lung cancer, as a minimum, around the time of diagnosis, on completion of primary treatment, when there is significant deterioration of symptoms and when dying is diagnosed.1 2 Self-assessment is considered a useful part of the process and several tools have been highlighted.3 One of these, the Sheffield Profile for Assessment and Referral to Care (SPARC), contains 45 questions with 56 possible responses covering seven areas of potential need.4 For most questions, patients rate the degree to which they have been distressed or bothered by a symptom … |
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