The patient group with previous experience of specialist psychotherapeutic treatment expected direct referral to a psychotherapist or other mental health specialist significantly more often than patients without this experience (Table 4).
The findings of this study indicate the need to build such skills and knowledge more systematically into professional training informed by the experience of specialist services and those living with the condition.
These findings indicate the need to build such skills and knowledge more systematically into professional training informed by the experience of specialist services and those living with the condition.
Smaller, single centre studies have shown that young people describe their experience of specialist young person's care as 'better' [ 2– 4]; however, no study has formally identified which outcomes may be affected by care in a specialist young person's cancer service.
32 36 One recent study explored men's experiences of recovery 20 and another examined men's experiences of specialist ED services.
Patients prefer to die in the home setting they are used to, if they have positive experiences of specialist community-based palliative care services and primary care services [ 8, 9].
Carolyn Davis Washington To the Editor: The experience of pain specialists over decades has convinced us that long-term opioid therapy is beneficial for a minority of patients with common causes of chronic pain and for a large majority of those with pain due to serious illness.
During the weight calculations, most of the weights were determined to be consistent with the experience of the specialists'.
