Publications by authors named "Susan Schlundt"
Article Synopsis
- A quality improvement project was started to help cancer patients, who were feeling sick from chemotherapy, follow better anti-nausea guidelines that can really help them.
- Before the project, a lot of patients (45%) were still getting nausea and vomiting, even with some medication, so they wanted to do better with the new guidelines.
- After the project, the team saw a big increase in using the right medications, which helped reduce nausea in many patients, but there wasn’t a noticeable change in their overall quality of life.
Objective: Pain and depression are two of the most prevalent and treatable cancer-related symptoms, each present in at least 20-30% of oncology patients. Both symptoms are frequently either unrecognized or undertreated, however. This article describes a telecare management intervention delivered by a nurse-psychiatrist team that is designed to improve recognition and treatment of pain and depression.
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