Systematic vs. on-demand early palliative care in gastric cancer patients: a randomized clinical trial assessing patient and healthcare service outcomes

Emanuela Scarpi,Monia Dall’Agata,Vittorina Zagonel,Teresa Gamucci,Raffaella Bertè,Elisabetta Sansoni,Elena Amaducci,Chiara Broglia,Sara Alquati,Ferdinando Garetto,Stefania Schiavon,Silvia Quadrini,Elena Orlandi,Andrea Casadei Gardini,Silvia Ruscelli,Daris Ferrari,Maria Simona Pino,Roberto Bortolussi,Federica Negri,Silvia Stragliotto,F. Narducci,Martina Valgiusti,Alberto Farolfi,Oriana Nanni,Romina Rossi,Marco Maltoni

Systematic vs. on-demand early palliative care in gastric cancer patients: a randomized clinical trial assessing patient and healthcare service outcomes

2018

Purpose Early palliative care (EPC) has shown a positive impact on quality of life (QoL), quality of care, and healthcare costs. We evaluated such effects in patients with advanced gastric cancer.

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Randomized controlled trial
Physical therapy
Intensive care medicine
Health care
Cancer
Medicine
Quality of life
palliative care
quality of care
pain medicine
Nursing research

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