Characteristics of Unscheduled and Scheduled Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic Patients at a Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Context: There is limited literature regarding outpatient palliative care and factors associated with unscheduled clinic visits.

Objectives: To compare characteristics of patients with unscheduled vs. scheduled outpatient palliative care clinic visits.

A systematic review of instruments assessing dimensions of distress among caregivers of adult and pediatric cancer patients.

Objective: Caregivers of cancer patients face intense demands throughout the course of the disease, survivorship, and bereavement. Caregiver burden, needs, satisfaction, quality of life, and other significant areas of caregiving are not monitored regularly in the clinic setting, resulting in a need to address the availability and clinical effectiveness of cancer caregiver distress tools. This review aimed to determine the availability of cancer caregiver instruments, the variation of instruments between different domains of distress, and that between adult and pediatric cancer patient populations.