[Use and costs of psycho-oncological liaison services].
The extent to which patients took advantage of psychosocial consultation services in two clinics for internal and oncological disorders was documented over a period of four and a half years to establish, for the sake of future planning, whether there was a demand for psychosocial intervention. During the first year of treatment, consultations between a member of the psychosocial staff and any one patient averaged a total of 13 hours (2 sessions a week, each lasting 28 mins). The number of sessions depended most of all on objectifiable stress factors related to the course of disease or treatment. From records of both directly patient-oriented and team-oriented staff activities, we calculated the staffing requirements and costs of offering a psychosomatic consultation service within the framework of intensive internal-oncological medical care.
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Institut und Poliklinik für Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie, Universität zu Köln.
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000191:economics / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000191:economics*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy
Inanspruchnahme und Kosten psychoonkologischer Liaisondienste.