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Citation: Emergency Cancer Care 2023 2:4
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Lung cancer in the emergency department
Though decreasing in incidence and mortality in the USA, lung cancer remains the deadliest of all cancers. For a significant number of patients, the emergency department (ED) provides the first pivotal step in...
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Understanding the urgent and emergency care navigation work undertaken by people with cancer and their informal caregivers: a conceptually framed scoping review
People with cancer frequently use urgent and emergency care. Reviews of research have focussed on the incidence and predictors of service use in this population, rather than how people make decisions about whi...
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Characteristics and clinical outcomes of patients with lung cancer requiring ICU admission: a retrospective analysis based on the MIMIC-III database
Lung cancer (LC) is the most common solid tumor type in the intensive care unit (ICU). This study investigated the characteristics of LC patients admitted to the ICU, the major reasons for their admission, sho...
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Intracranial emergencies in neurosurgical oncology: pathophysiology and clinical management
Intracranial tumors pose a challenge in neurosurgery, especially when patients present emergently or require emergency surgery. Tackling an acute change in the patient’s mental status is the primary reason for...
Citation: Emergency Cancer Care 2022 1:13 -
Intervention during wait time: identification and referral of individuals non-adherent for colorectal cancer screening
Despite unanimous recommendations from numerous specialty societies on regular colorectal cancer screening, a substantial proportion of eligible adults are non-adherent with screening. The current study invest...
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Evaluation of a new emergency department avoidance model of care, the Cancer Urgent Assessment Clinic, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
The Cancer Urgent Assessment Clinic (CUAC) was an emergency department (ED) avoidance/unscheduled model of care implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim was to reduce the risk of COVID-19 expo...
Citation: Emergency Cancer Care 2022 1:11 -
Palliative care models for patients living with advanced cancer: a narrative review for the emergency department clinician
Eighty-one percent of persons living with cancer have an emergency department (ED) visit within the last 6 months of life. Many cancer patients in the ED are at an advanced stage with high symptom burden and c...
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Correction: Emergency management of incidental pulmonary embolism (IPE)
Citation: Emergency Cancer Care 2022 1:9 -
Acute home-based care for patients with cancer to avoid, substitute, and follow emergency department visits: a conceptual framework using Porter’s Five Forces
Patients with cancer constitute a large and increasing segment of patients who receive unscheduled hospital-based care due to treatment-related symptoms and disease progression. The initial hospital-based touc...
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Emergency management of incidental pulmonary embolism (IPE)
Venous thrombo-embolic (VTE) disease is a common cause of complications in patients with cancer and is the second most common cause of death in oncology patients other than the malignant disease. Whilst sympto...
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Recognizing the emergency department’s role in oncologic care: a review of the literature on unplanned acute care
The global prevalence of cancer is rapidly increasing and will increase the acute care needs of patients with cancer, including emergency department (ED) care. Patients with cancer present to the ED across the...
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A selective review of smoking cessation interventions in the emergency department
Emergency department (ED) patients disproportionally smoke compared to the general population and frequently utilize the ED for routine, urgent, and emergent care. Thus, the ED is a target-rich environment for...
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Cancer-related emergency and urgent care: expanding the research agenda
Cancer-related emergency department (ED) visits often result in higher hospital admission rates than non-cancer visits. It has been estimated many of these costly hospital admissions can be prevented, yet urge...
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Emergency department-based cancer screening interventions
Emergency department patients are disproportionately non-adherent with the United States Preventive Services Task Force cancer screening recommendations, making the emergency department a target-rich environme...
Citation: Emergency Cancer Care 2022 1:3 -
The current state of acute oncology training for emergency physicians: a narrative review
Patients with cancer represent a growing population of patients seeking acute care in emergency departments (ED) nationwide. Emergency physicians are expected to provide excellent, consistent care to all ED pa...
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Emergency Cancer Care: inaugural editorial
Citation: Emergency Cancer Care 2022 1:1