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 health care system.

Keyphrases

emergency department
primary care
healthcare
palliative care
quality improvement
chronic pain
health insurance