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Weekly JAMA Feature for July 13
TELEPHONE CARE MANAGEMENT LESSENS PAIN AND DEPRESSION FOR CANCER PATIENTS
JAMA RADIO REPORT
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
This week’s package has an embargo until 4 p.m. (ET) Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Radio script (TRT 1:00)
July 13, 2010
VO: PAIN AND DEPRESSION ARE TWO OF THE MOST PREVALENT SYMPTOMS FACING CANCER PATIENTS. THESE SYMPTOMS ARE ALSO TREATABLE BUT FREQUENTLY ARE UNDETECTED AND UNDERTREATED. A NEW STUDY SHOWS BY RECEIVING TELEPHONE CARE MANAGEMENT FOR THESE SYMPTOMS, CANCER PATIENTS LESSENED BOTH THEIR PAIN AND DEPRESSION.
“Typically pain is often treated in the medical setting as a physical symptom and depression in the mental health sector and sometimes this fragments care.”
VO: DR. KURT KROENKE FROM THE REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE AND INDIANA UNIVERSITY AND CO-AUTHORS STUDIED MORE THAN 400 CANCER PATIENTS FROM RURAL AND URBAN AREAS ACROSS INDIANA WHO HAD PAIN, DEPRESSION OR BOTH FOR ONE YEAR. HALF ANSWERED AUTOMATED QUESTIONS ABOUT THEIR SYMPTOMS AND RECEIVED A MONTHLY FOLLOWUP CALL FROM A NURSE. THE OTHERS RECEIVED THE USUAL CARE FROM THEIR ONCOLOGISTS. THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
“We found actually that the telecare management group did better in terms of their pain and depression than the usual care group.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.
Radio script (TRT 1:00)
July 13, 2010
VO: PAIN AND DEPRESSION ARE TWO OF THE MOST PREVALENT SYMPTOMS FACING CANCER PATIENTS. THESE SYMPTOMS ARE ALSO TREATABLE BUT FREQUENTLY ARE UNDETECTED AND UNDERTREATED. A NEW STUDY SHOWS BY RECEIVING TELEPHONE CARE MANAGEMENT FOR THESE SYMPTOMS, CANCER PATIENTS LESSENED BOTH THEIR PAIN AND DEPRESSION.
“Typically pain is often treated in the medical setting as a physical symptom and depression in the mental health sector and sometimes this fragments care.”
VO: DR. KURT KROENKE FROM THE REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE AND INDIANA UNIVERSITY AND CO-AUTHORS STUDIED MORE THAN 400 CANCER PATIENTS FROM RURAL AND URBAN AREAS ACROSS INDIANA WHO HAD PAIN, DEPRESSION OR BOTH FOR ONE YEAR. HALF ANSWERED AUTOMATED QUESTIONS ABOUT THEIR SYMPTOMS AND RECEIVED A MONTHLY FOLLOWUP CALL FROM A NURSE. THE OTHERS RECEIVED THE USUAL CARE FROM THEIR ONCOLOGISTS. THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
“We found actually that the telecare management group did better in terms of their pain and depression than the usual care group.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.