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      Early palliative care for adults with advanced cancer

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          Incurable cancer, which often constitutes an enormous challenge for patients, their families, and medical professionals, profoundly affects the patient's physical and psychosocial well-being. In standard cancer care, palliative measures generally are initiated when it is evident that disease-modifying treatments have been unsuccessful, no treatments can be offered, or death is anticipated. In contrast, early palliative care is initiated much earlier in the disease trajectory and closer to the diagnosis of incurable cancer.

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            Early Versus Delayed Initiation of Concurrent Palliative Oncology Care: Patient Outcomes in the ENABLE III Randomized Controlled Trial.

            Randomized controlled trials have supported integrated oncology and palliative care (PC); however, optimal timing has not been evaluated. We investigated the effect of early versus delayed PC on quality of life (QOL), symptom impact, mood, 1-year survival, and resource use.
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              Systematic review: the relationship between clinical experience and quality of health care.

              Physicians with more experience are generally believed to have accumulated knowledge and skills during years in practice and therefore to deliver high-quality care. However, evidence suggests that there is an inverse relationship between the number of years that a physician has been in practice and the quality of care that the physician provides. To systematically review studies relating medical knowledge and health care quality to years in practice and physician age. English-language articles in MEDLINE from 1966 to June 2004 and reference lists of retrieved articles. Studies that provided empirical results about knowledge or a quality-of-care outcome and included years since graduation or physician age as explanatory variables. We categorized studies on the basis of the nature of the association between years in practice or age and performance. Overall, 32 of the 62 (52%) evaluations reported decreasing performance with increasing years in practice for all outcomes assessed; 13 (21%) reported decreasing performance with increasing experience for some outcomes but no association for others; 2 (3%) reported that performance initially increased with increasing experience, peaked, and then decreased (concave relationship); 13 (21%) reported no association; 1 (2%) reported increasing performance with increasing years in practice for some outcomes but no association for others; and 1 (2%) reported increasing performance with increasing years in practice for all outcomes. Results did not change substantially when the analysis was restricted to studies that used the most objective outcome measures. Because of the lack of reliable search terms for physician experience, reports that provided relevant data may have been missed. Physicians who have been in practice longer may be at risk for providing lower-quality care. Therefore, this subgroup of physicians may need quality improvement interventions.
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                Journal
                Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
                Wiley-Blackwell
                14651858
                June 12 2017
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                [1 ]Cochrane Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care Group
                Article
                10.1002/14651858.CD011129.pub2
                6481832
                28603881
                6e878951-e753-40ae-8149-18394be83b0f
                © 2017
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