Implementation of depression and anxiety screening in patients undergoing radiotherapy

Anxiety and depression are disabling, underdiagnosed issues that affect the management of oncology patients. Until recently, there has been no standard protocol for screening and treating these ailments at our cancer centre. The purpose of this institutional review board-approved study was to analys...

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Autores principales: Holtzman, Adam L, Pereira, Deidre B, Yeung, Anamaria R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2018
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BMJ Quality improvement report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5942403/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29756069
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2017-000034
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description Anxiety and depression are disabling, underdiagnosed issues that affect the management of oncology patients. Until recently, there has been no standard protocol for screening and treating these ailments at our cancer centre. The purpose of this institutional review board-approved study was to analyse the implementation of a screening tool in our clinical workflow with the aim of screening over 90% of patients and increasing referrals to mental health services by 50%.
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spelling pubmed-59424032018-05-11 Implementation of depression and anxiety screening in patients undergoing radiotherapy Holtzman, Adam L Pereira, Deidre B Yeung, Anamaria R BMJ Open Qual BMJ Quality improvement report Anxiety and depression are disabling, underdiagnosed issues that affect the management of oncology patients. Until recently, there has been no standard protocol for screening and treating these ailments at our cancer centre. The purpose of this institutional review board-approved study was to analyse the implementation of a screening tool in our clinical workflow with the aim of screening over 90% of patients and increasing referrals to mental health services by 50%. BMJ Publishing Group 2018-05-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5942403/ /pubmed/29756069 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2017-000034 Text en © Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/ This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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