Factors associated with distress and the impact of distress on acute health-care service utilization among patients diagnosed with breast and gynecological cancers.

Objectives: Patients with cancer often have unmet needs (e.g., physical, psychosocial, and emotional) during their cancer journey, putting them at risk for distress.

Palliative care pain control: inpatient consultation versus corounding models compared.

Background: Compared with the current inpatient consultation model, a novel corounding model of care whereby palliative specialists round with oncology teams, increases healthcare collaboration and may improve quality of care for inpatients. Whether this translates to better pain control for patients is unexplored.

Objective: To determine whether the corounding model provides better pain control compared with the consultation model for cancer inpatients.