Demand for weekend outpatient chemotherapy among patients with cancer in Japan

BACKGROUND: Advanced cancer therapeutics have improved patient survival, leading to an increase in the number of patients who require long-term outpatient chemotherapy. However, the available schedule options for chemotherapy are generally limited to traditional business hours. METHOD: In 2017, we s...

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Autores principales: Katayama, Hideki, Tabata, Masahiro, Kubo, Toshio, Kiura, Katsuyuki, Matsuoka, Junji, Maeda, Yoshinobu
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Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7843541/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32621265
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-020-05575-x
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author Katayama, Hideki
Tabata, Masahiro
Kubo, Toshio
Kiura, Katsuyuki
Matsuoka, Junji
Maeda, Yoshinobu
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description BACKGROUND: Advanced cancer therapeutics have improved patient survival, leading to an increase in the number of patients who require long-term outpatient chemotherapy. However, the available schedule options for chemotherapy are generally limited to traditional business hours. METHOD: In 2017, we surveyed 721 patients with cancer in Okayama, Japan, regarding their preferences for evening and weekend (Friday evening, Saturday, and Sunday) chemotherapy appointments. RESULTS: A preference for evening and weekend appointment options was indicated by 37% of the respondents. Patients who requested weekend chemotherapy were younger, female, with no spouse or partner, living alone, employed, and currently receiving treatment. Among these factors, age and employment status were significantly associated with a preference for weekend chemotherapy, according to multivariate analysis. CONCLUSION: Our findings reveal a demand for evening and weekend outpatient chemotherapy, especially among young, employed patients.
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spelling pubmed-78435412021-02-04 Demand for weekend outpatient chemotherapy among patients with cancer in Japan Katayama, Hideki Tabata, Masahiro Kubo, Toshio Kiura, Katsuyuki Matsuoka, Junji Maeda, Yoshinobu Support Care Cancer Original Article BACKGROUND: Advanced cancer therapeutics have improved patient survival, leading to an increase in the number of patients who require long-term outpatient chemotherapy. However, the available schedule options for chemotherapy are generally limited to traditional business hours. METHOD: In 2017, we surveyed 721 patients with cancer in Okayama, Japan, regarding their preferences for evening and weekend (Friday evening, Saturday, and Sunday) chemotherapy appointments. RESULTS: A preference for evening and weekend appointment options was indicated by 37% of the respondents. Patients who requested weekend chemotherapy were younger, female, with no spouse or partner, living alone, employed, and currently receiving treatment. Among these factors, age and employment status were significantly associated with a preference for weekend chemotherapy, according to multivariate analysis. CONCLUSION: Our findings reveal a demand for evening and weekend outpatient chemotherapy, especially among young, employed patients. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-07-04 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7843541/ /pubmed/32621265 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-020-05575-x Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Katayama, Hideki
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Kiura, Katsuyuki
Matsuoka, Junji
Maeda, Yoshinobu
Demand for weekend outpatient chemotherapy among patients with cancer in Japan
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title_short Demand for weekend outpatient chemotherapy among patients with cancer in Japan
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7843541/
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