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BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER
卷 112, 期 -, 页码 S65-S69出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2015.44
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Denmark; diagnosis; health services organisation; access; investigation
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资金
- Danish Cancer Society
- Novo Nordisk foundation
- Research Unit for General Practice
- The Danish Cancer Society [R142-A9081] Funding Source: researchfish
When aiming to provide more expedited cancer diagnosis and treatment of cancer at an earlier stage, it is important to take into account the symptom epidemiology throughout the pathway, from first bodily sensation until the start of cancer treatment. This has implications for how primary-care providers interpret the presentation and decisions around patient management and investigation. Symptom epidemiology has consequences for how the health-care system might best be organised. This paper argues for and describes the organisation of the Danish three-legged strategy in diagnosing cancer, which includes urgent referral pathways for symptoms suspicious of a specific cancer, urgent referral to diagnostic centres when we need quick and profound evaluation of patients with nonspecific, serious symptoms and finally easy and fast access to 'No-Yes-Clinics' for cancer investigations for those patients with common symptoms in whom the diagnosis of cancer should not be missed. The organisation of the health-care system must reflect the reality of symptoms presented in primary care. The organisational change is evaluated and monitored with a comprehensive research agenda, data infrastructure and education.
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