A Qualitative Analysis of Cancer-related Patient Care in the Emergency Department.

Rebecca S LashNick PettitEric VachonCandice SpackmanClaire Burke Draucker

Published in: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2023)

Physicians and nurses experience challenges stemming from three overarching types of factors: illness factors, communication factors, and system-level factors. Solutions for the challenges of providing oncology care in the ED call for new strategies at the levels of the patient, provider, institution, and healthcare system.

Keyphrases

emergency department
healthcare
primary care
palliative care
mental health
pain management
chronic pain