To assist in the implementation of psychosocial care National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre has developed a psychosocial referral checklist which can be used to identify patients at higher risk of psychosocial distress who may benefit from additional assessment and appropriate referral for psychosocial care.
Clinical resources
- Psychosocial care referral checklist
Publication date: February 2008
Provides a simple way for health professionals to identify patients at higher risk of psychosocial distress who may benefit from additional assessment and appropriate referral for psychosocial care. This resource is a tear-off pad containing: explanatory notes, the psychosocial care referral checklist and a copy of the NCCN distress thermometer for measuring psychosocial distress.
