Open AccessEMERALD: Emergency visit audit of patients treated under medical oncology in a tertiary cancer center: Logical steps to decrease the burden
Author(s) -
Amit Joshi,
Vijay Patil,
Vanita Noronha,
Anant Ramaswamy,
Sudeep Gupta,
Atanu Bhattacharjee,
Avinash Bonda,
M V Chandrakanth,
Vikas Ostwal,
Navin Khattry,
Shripad Banavali,
Kumar Prabhash
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
south asian journal of cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-4306
pISSN - 2278-330X
DOI - 10.4103/sajc.sajc_128_17
Subject(s) - medicine , audit , emergency department , emergency medicine , odds ratio , medical record , cancer , medical emergency , family medicine , nursing , management , economics
We are a tertiary care cancer center and have approximately 1000-1500 emergency visits by cancer patients undergoing treatment under the adult medical oncology unit each month. However, due to the lack of a systematic audit, we are unable to plan steps toward the improvement in quality of emergency services, and hence the audit was planned.