TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrating social work into palliative care for lung cancer patients and families
T2 - A multidimensional approach
AU - Otis-Green, Shirley
AU - Sidhu, Rupinder K.
AU - Del Ferraro, Catherine
AU - Ferrell, Betty
N1 - Funding Information:
Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under grant number P01 CA136396.
Funding Information:
Lung cancer patients and their family caregivers face a wide range of potentially distressing symptoms across the four domains of quality of life. A multidimensional approach to addressing these complex concerns with early integration of palliative care has proven beneficial. This article highlights opportunities to integrate social work using a comprehensive quality of life model and a composite patient scenario from a large lung cancer educational intervention National Cancer Institute–funded program project grant.
PY - 2014/7/4
Y1 - 2014/7/4
N2 - Lung cancer patients and their family caregivers face a wide range of potentially distressing symptoms across the four domains of quality of life. A multidimensional approach to addressing these complex concerns with early integration of palliative care has proven beneficial. This article highlights opportunities to integrate social work using a comprehensive quality of life model and a composite patient scenario from a large lung cancer educational intervention National Cancer Institute-funded program project grant.
AB - Lung cancer patients and their family caregivers face a wide range of potentially distressing symptoms across the four domains of quality of life. A multidimensional approach to addressing these complex concerns with early integration of palliative care has proven beneficial. This article highlights opportunities to integrate social work using a comprehensive quality of life model and a composite patient scenario from a large lung cancer educational intervention National Cancer Institute-funded program project grant.
KW - family caregiver support
KW - lung cancer
KW - oncology social work
KW - palliative care
KW - quality-of-life model
KW - suffering
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U2 - 10.1080/07347332.2014.917140
DO - 10.1080/07347332.2014.917140
M3 - Article
C2 - 24797998
AN - SCOPUS:84903782314
SN - 0734-7332
VL - 32
SP - 431
EP - 446
JO - Journal of Psychosocial Oncology
JF - Journal of Psychosocial Oncology
IS - 4
ER -