Cancer care for the whole patient
Subtitle: meeting psychosocial health needs
By: Committee on Psychosocial Services to Cancer Patients / Families in a Community Setting, Board on Health Care Services ; Nancy E. Adler and Ann E.K. Page, editors.
Contributors: Adler, Nancy E.; Page, Ann; National Institue of Medicine (U. S.) Committee on Psychosocial Services to Cancer Patients / Families in a Community Setting.
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9780309111072
Subjects: Cancer -- Patients -- Care -- United States; Cancer -- Patients -- Services for -- United States; Cancer -- Social aspects -- United States; Neoplasms -- psychology; Neoplasms -- therapy; Counseling -- methods; Needs Assessment; Psychology, Medical -- methods; Stress, Psychological -- complications
Description: "Today, it is not possible to deliver high-quality cancer care without addressing patients' psychosocial health needs. All patients with cancer and their families should expect and recieve cancer care that ensures the provision of appropriate psychosocial health services through existing approaches, tools, and resources. This book recommends actions that oncology providers, health policy makers, educators, health insurers, health planners, researchers and research sponsors, and consumer advocates should undertake to ensure that this standard is met."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.