The Impact of a Patient Education Intervention for Ambulatory Oncology Patients

Exclusion Criteria

• •The patient is thought to be at risk to self or others, or be in need of immediate psychiatric assessment, in which case the patient will be referred urgently for assessment with psychosocial oncology or department of psychiatry
• •The patient wishes to discontinue the study
• •The patient is noted to be cognitively impaired during the course of the study such that he cannot complete a questionnaire reliably or physically impaired such that it is too burdensome