title: Supportive care program, pain service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
abstract: Advanced cancer patients being cared for at home, with severe pain and multiple symptoms, strain the resources of individual community practitioners and family members. Supportive care programs, such as that developed by the Pain Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York), with good communication and liaison work between hospital and community, add a much needed dimension to pain and symptom control for these patients and their families, as well as ongoing support to community physicians and nurses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA.
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authors.lastname: Coyle
mesh_terms: D002173:Cancer Care Facilities; D003142:Communication; D003153:Community Health Services; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003191:Comprehensive Health Care; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care; D006295:Health Resources; D018575:Home Care Services, Hospital-Based; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology; D009519:New York City; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D010146:Pain / Q000517:prevention & control; D018710:Pain Clinics; D010348:Patient Care Team; D018579:Patient Selection; D010820:Physicians; D012947:Social Work