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Neha Kayastha

Neha Kayastha

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Care
neha.kayastha@duke.edu
Duke Box 3688, Durham, NC 27710
40 Duke Medicine Circle, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

Innovations for the integration of palliative care for hematologic malignancies.

Journal Article Curr Probl Cancer · October 2023 Specialist palliative care provides additional support to facilitate living well with a serious illness, like cancer, even while pursuing disease-directed therapy. For patients with hematologic malignancies, integrated specialist palliative care improves s ... Full text Link to item Cite

Palliative care for patients with hematologic malignancies: are we meeting patients' needs early enough?

Journal Article Expert Rev Hematol · September 2022 INTRODUCTION: Palliative care for patients with cancer, and more recently for patients with hematologic malignancies, has increasingly been shown to be beneficial, with mounting evidence pointing to its vast benefits both to patients and caregivers. Despit ... Full text Link to item Cite

When to Integrate Palliative Care in the Trajectory of Cancer Care.

Journal Article Curr Treat Options Oncol · April 23, 2020 Palliative care provides an extra layer of support to patients and families facing a serious illness. To date, several studies support the use of early, integrated palliative care for patients with cancer, based upon documented improvements in quality of l ... Full text Link to item Cite

Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Caring for Patients with Hematologic Malignancies.

Journal Article J Palliat Med · November 2019 Hematologic malignancies differ in several important ways from solid organ cancers, and warrant a unique approach to palliative care (PC) integration. As PC has moved upstream from end-of-life care, PC clinicians are increasingly asked to see patients with ... Full text Link to item Cite

The impact of remission status on patients' experiences with acute myeloid leukemia (AML): an exploratory analysis of longitudinal patient-reported outcomes data.

Journal Article Support Care Cancer · May 2018 PURPOSE: Shared decision-making in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) requires understanding patients' longitudinal experiences of illness, but little is known about the impact of remission status on patient-reported outcomes (PROs). We aimed to explore the asso ... Full text Link to item Cite

Open Oncology Notes: A Qualitative Study of Oncology Patients' Experiences Reading Their Cancer Care Notes.

Journal Article J Oncol Pract · April 2018 PURPOSE: Electronic medical records increasingly allow patients access to clinician notes. Although most believe that open notes benefits patients, some suggest negative consequences. Little is known about the experiences of patients with cancer reading th ... Full text Link to item Cite

Open notes: A qualitative study of oncology patients’ experiences reading their cancer care notes.

Conference Journal of Clinical Oncology · November 1, 2017 33 Background: Electronic medical record systems and patient portals increasingly allow patients direct access to their clinicians’ notes.While most believe that open notes benefit patients, some suggest negative consequences. Li ... Full text Cite