Organisation and delivery of supportive services for patients with prostate cancer in the National Health Service in England and Wales: a national cross-sectional hospital survey and latent class analysis.
Joanna DodkinsAdrian CookMelanie MorrisJulie NossiterSteve PrustSteve WallerJan H P van der MeulenAjay AggarwalNoel ClarkeHeather Ann PaynePublished in: BMJ open (2023)
There is considerable variation in supportive services for prostate cancer available onsite in NHS hospitals in England and Wales. Availability of genetic counselling and oncogeriatric services is low. The different patterns of supportive services among hospitals demonstrate that initiatives to improve the availability of the entire range of supportive services to all patients should be carefully targeted.
Keyphrases
- healthcare
- prostate cancer
- primary care
- cross sectional
- mental health
- quality improvement
- end stage renal disease
- radical prostatectomy
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- prognostic factors
- genome wide
- peritoneal dialysis
- dna methylation
- emergency department
- patient reported outcomes
- copy number
- hiv infected
- men who have sex with men
- hiv testing