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A cancer patient with a fever or severe sickness during treatment should be seen quickly by a team that knows chemotherapy, not wait hours in a general emergency room.
Cancer patients present to emergency departments frequently during treatment and are often admitted when same-day specialist assessment would have avoided it. Acute oncology services and dedicated assessment units (established across the UK and in some US centres) provide a direct line, rapid triage, and protocolised management for neutropenic fever, dehydration, and immune-related toxicity. The proposal is to make such a unit a required component of every treating centre.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps, Toxicity and quality of life are undervalued.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.