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Cancer often ruins families financially, and money worries make people skip treatment. Ask about finances at the first visit, as routinely as asking about allergies, and route people to assistance.
Financial toxicity is common, predicts non-adherence and worse outcomes, and is rarely assessed. Validated brief instruments (such as the COST measure) can be added to intake, with positive screens triggering referral to financial navigators, charity programmes, and benefit advice. This is cheap and addresses a cause of care fragmentation and abandonment in every health system, insured or not.
Shares Screening for distress: what the thermometer can and cannot do, Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency and the tags protocol-upgrade, upgrade:promising.
Shares Screening for distress: what the thermometer can and cannot do, Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency and the tags protocol-upgrade, upgrade:promising.
Shares Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency and the tags protocol-upgrade, upgrade:promising.
Shares Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency and the tags protocol-upgrade, upgrade:promising.
Shares Fragmented care and guideline gaps and the tags protocol-upgrade, upgrade:promising.
Shares Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency and the tags protocol-upgrade, upgrade:promising.
Shares Fragmented care and guideline gaps and the tags protocol-upgrade, upgrade:promising.
Shares the tags protocol-upgrade, upgrade:promising.
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