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Do Patients With Breast Cancer Participating In Clinical Trials Receive Better Nursing Care?, Myriam Skrutkowska, Charles Weijer
Do Patients With Breast Cancer Participating In Clinical Trials Receive Better Nursing Care?, Myriam Skrutkowska, Charles Weijer
Charles Weijer
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES: To examine differences in nursing care received by patients with breast cancer enrolled in clinical trials and those not enrolled in clinical trials.
DESIGN: Retrospective review of clinic charts.
SETTING: Oncology outpatient department of a tertiary-care hospital. SAMPLE: 90 women with early stage breast cancer. The mean age of the women was 53 years. More than half of the women (51 of 90) were treated in a clinical trial.
METHODS: Retrospective chart review of all the nurse-patient clinic encounters for a six-month period from date of cancer diagnosis. The content of each encounter was coded using a modified version …