A randomized trial of a specialist palliative care intervention for patients undergoing surgery for cancer: rationale and design of the Surgery for Cancer with Option of Palliative Care Expert (SCOPE) Trial.

Related Articles A randomized trial of a specialist palliative care intervention for patients undergoing surgery for cancer: rationale and design of the Surgery for Cancer with Option of Palliative Care Expert (SCOPE) Trial. Trials. 2019 Dec 11;20(1):713 Authors: Shinall MC, Hoskins A, Hawkins AT, Bailey C, Brown A, Agarwal R, Duggan MC, Beskow LM, Periyakoil VS, Penson DF, Jarrett RT, Chandrasekhar R, Ely EW Abstract BACKGROUND: In medical oncology settings, early specialist palliative care interventions have demonstrated improvements in patient quality of life and survival compared with usual oncologic care. However, the effect of early specialist palliative care interventions in…
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