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Abstract
Anxiety and depression are disabling, underdiagnosed issues that affect the management of oncology patients. Until recently, there has been no standard protocol for screening and treating these ailments at our cancer centre. The purpose of this institutional review board-approved study was to analyse the implementation of a screening tool in our clinical workflow with the aim of screening over 90% of patients and increasing referrals to mental health services by 50%.
- quality improvement
- mental health
- safety culture
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Contributors ALH and DBP acquired, analysed and interpretation of the data and drafted the manuscript. ARY designed the project and revised the manuscript. All authors approved the final version of manuscript.
Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
Patient consent Not required.
Ethics approval This project was approved by our institutional review board.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.