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An audit of referring patterns for cancer patients to the Palliative Care Unit in 2 Military Hospital, by means of a retrospective evaluation of the percentage of referrals adhering to a given standard, and evaluation of possible barriers
Includes bibliographical references.
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10469 An audit of referring patterns for cancer patients to the Palliative Care Unit in 2 Military Hospital, by means of a retrospective evaluation of the percentage of referrals adhering to a given standard, and evaluation of possible barriers Engelbrecht, Mari Palliative Care Includes bibliographical references. The 2 Military Hospital Palliative Care unit seeks to provide high quality, holistic palliative care to all patients suffering from life-threatening diseases. This care should be initiated early after diagnosis, to prevent unnecessary suffering and allowing the patient and the family to be part of the decision making process. However, the majority of the cancer patients are either referred very late in the disease process or are not referred at all. The purpose of this study was to enumerate the percentage of patients who were not referred to the palliative care unit; to identify possible barriers to referral within referring doctors and to promote the role of the palliative care unit. 2014-12-29T04:58:57Z 2014-12-29T04:58:57Z 2002 Master Thesis Masters MPhil http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10469 eng application/pdf Department of Public Health and Family Medicine Faculty of Health Sciences University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Palliative Care Engelbrecht, Mari An audit of referring patterns for cancer patients to the Palliative Care Unit in 2 Military Hospital, by means of a retrospective evaluation of the percentage of referrals adhering to a given standard, and evaluation of possible barriers |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | An audit of referring patterns for cancer patients to the Palliative Care Unit in 2 Military Hospital, by means of a retrospective evaluation of the percentage of referrals adhering to a given standard, and evaluation of possible barriers |
| title_full | An audit of referring patterns for cancer patients to the Palliative Care Unit in 2 Military Hospital, by means of a retrospective evaluation of the percentage of referrals adhering to a given standard, and evaluation of possible barriers |
| title_fullStr | An audit of referring patterns for cancer patients to the Palliative Care Unit in 2 Military Hospital, by means of a retrospective evaluation of the percentage of referrals adhering to a given standard, and evaluation of possible barriers |
| title_full_unstemmed | An audit of referring patterns for cancer patients to the Palliative Care Unit in 2 Military Hospital, by means of a retrospective evaluation of the percentage of referrals adhering to a given standard, and evaluation of possible barriers |
| title_short | An audit of referring patterns for cancer patients to the Palliative Care Unit in 2 Military Hospital, by means of a retrospective evaluation of the percentage of referrals adhering to a given standard, and evaluation of possible barriers |
| title_sort | audit of referring patterns for cancer patients to the palliative care unit in 2 military hospital by means of a retrospective evaluation of the percentage of referrals adhering to a given standard and evaluation of possible barriers |
| topic | Palliative Care |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10469 |
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