When Would You Like to be Treated? — A Short Survey of Radiotherapy Outpatients Export

@article{citeulike:3477933, abstract = {To determine whether patients undergoing radiotherapy would choose to attend appointments for a course of treatment scheduled outside the normal working day and working week. A survey of radiotherapy outpatients was conducted on two single days in late 2005 and early 2006. There were four departments in the first cohort and five in the second cohort. Departments were selected from across the UK and were chosen to reflect both city centre and out of town locations. Six of the nine departments were working extended hours at the time of the survey. The second cohort received a modified questionnaire that included two additional questions relating to appointments at weekends. There is sufficient support from patients for attendance outside the normal working day to ensure appointment slots would not go unfilled during a moderate extension to the working day. However, the percentage of patients that would attend varied between departments. This demonstrates the need for local evaluation of patient preference before the introduction of extended working hours.}, author = {Calman, F. and White, L. and Beckingham, E. and Deehan, C.}, citeulike-article-id = {3477933}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clon.2007.11.006}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0936655507008849}, doi = {10.1016/j.clon.2007.11.006}, issn = {09366555}, journal = {Clinical Oncology}, keywords = {flow, phd, workload}, month = {March}, number = {2}, pages = {184--190}, posted-at = {2008-11-04 08:56:14}, priority = {2}, title = {When Would You Like to be Treated? — A Short Survey of Radiotherapy Outpatients}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clon.2007.11.006}, volume = {20}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3477933 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3477933 N2 - To determine whether patients undergoing radiotherapy would choose to attend appointments for a course of treatment scheduled outside the normal working day and working week. A survey of radiotherapy outpatients was conducted on two single days in late 2005 and early 2006. There were four departments in the first cohort and five in the second cohort. Departments were selected from across the UK and were chosen to reflect both city centre and out of town locations. Six of the nine departments were working extended hours at the time of the survey. The second cohort received a modified questionnaire that included two additional questions relating to appointments at weekends. There is sufficient support from patients for attendance outside the normal working day to ensure appointment slots would not go unfilled during a moderate extension to the working day. However, the percentage of patients that would attend varied between departments. This demonstrates the need for local evaluation of patient preference before the introduction of extended working hours. IS - 2 JF - Clinical Oncology SN - 09366555 EP - 190 TI - When Would You Like to be Treated? — A Short Survey of Radiotherapy Outpatients VL - 20 SP - 184 KW - flow KW - phd KW - workload AU - Calman, F AU - White, L AU - Beckingham, E AU - Deehan, C PY - 2008/03// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clon.2007.11.006 ER -