Referral patterns and requested interventions in a cancer pain e-consult system
Sarah Ahmed, Matthew Robert Smith, Moustafa Abdalla, Vicki Jackson, David Hao · 2026
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Description
Sarah Ahmed and co-authors mapped the work of an online consult service for cancer pain in this 2026 study. The service lets doctors at a large Boston hospital ask pain specialists for procedure advice through the chart system. The team reviewed five years of requests, 348 in all.
Hospice and palliative teams sent over half the requests, and gut cancer teams sent the next most. The top asks were a nerve block near the gut, spine procedures, and opioid plan help. Half the patients had died by review time, a median of about five months after referral. Which procedure was asked for tracked survival in telling ways. The authors show the service spans many cancers and needs.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sarah Ahmed, Matthew Robert Smith, Moustafa Abdalla, Vicki Jackson, David Hao |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |