Identification of appropriate and potentially avoidable emergency department referrals in a tertiary cancer care center.

Purpose: Referrals to the Emergency Department can be distressing to patients with advanced cancer and may be a non-optimizing health care service. We aimed to describe the appropriateness and potential avoidability of Emergency Department referrals in a tertiary cancer care center where only physician referrals are allowed.

Methods: We prospectively reviewed the electronic medical charts of patients consecutively checked into the Emergency Department in August 2015.

Impacts of a navigation program based on health information technology for patients receiving oral anticancer therapy: the CAPRI randomized controlled trial.

Background: The emergence of oral delivery in cancer therapeutics is expected to result in an increased need for better coordination between all treatment stakeholders, mainly to ensure adequate treatment delivery to the patient. There is significant interest in the nurse navigation program's potential to improve transitions of care by improving communication between treatment stakeholders and by providing personalized organizational assistance to patients. The use of health information technology is another strategy aimed at improving cancer care coordination that can be combined with the NN program to improve remote patient follow-up.

[Detection and evaluation of malnutrition in oncology: What tools, what type of cancer and for what purposes?].

Malnutrition is frequently observed in oncology. The consequences on patient survival, chemotherapy toxicities and quality of life need to be identified and treated appropriately. A set of tools are available that enable clinicians to diagnose and detect malnutrition.

Evaluating beauty care provided by the hospital to women suffering from breast cancer: qualitative aspects.

Goals Of Work: Cancer patients are offered more and more access to beauty care during their stay in the hospital. This kind of intervention has not been evaluated yet. Primary objective of our research was to determine what type of evaluation strategy to be implemented (as a supportive care with quality of life and/or medical benefits; as a service providing immediate comfort); intermediate objective was to investigate in scientific terms (psychological, sociological) the experience of beauty care by patients.