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Home-based chemotherapy for cancer

2 Jun 2004

To accomplish this, the Agency advises and supports the Minister of Health and Social Services as well as the decision-makers in the health care system, in matters concerning the assessment of health services and technologies. [...] The ap- vent the growth and proliferation of cells, and is proach can be appealing to the patient for a especially used in cancer treatment in order to number of reasons including receiving therapy destroy neoplastic cells that show uncontrolled in the comfort and security of the home, de- growth. [...] The patient with cancer (1) Support for program evaluation must be fully informed about the implications of In light of the insufficient evidence, there is a chemotherapy protocols in general and receiving need for well-designed evaluations of home therapy at home in particular. [...] The financial support of the transfer of of quality treatment in the home environment are skills from oncology to community nursing ap- fundamentally related to the overall vision of pears to be lacking. [...] The use of specific home chemotherapy program, in fact, presents a budgets for home chemotherapy relieves the ‘microcosm’ of the general issues in cancer care: burden of having to ‘borrow’ nursing time from the need for comprehensive services that address inpatient and outpatient departments.
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Authors

Boothroyd, Lucy

ISBN
2550425847
Pages
95
Published in
Canada

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