The Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale: an instrument for the evaluation of symptom prevalence, characteristics and distress

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 1994, Pages 1326-1336

  Portenoy, R K ^a   Thaler, H T ^a   Kornblith, A B ^a   McCarthy Lepore, J ^a   Friedlander Klar, H ^a   Kiyasu, E ^a   Sobel, K ^a   Coyle, N ^a   Kemeny, N ^a   Norton, L ^a   Scher, H ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

psychometrics; scale development; symptom assessment; symptom distress; symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASMS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0028033880     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0959-8049(94)90182-1     Document Type: Article

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