Clinical utility, factor analysis, and further validation of the memorial delirium assessment scale in patients with advanced cancer: Assessing delirium in advanced cancer

Cancer

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2859-2867

  Lawlor, Peter G ^a,b   Nekolaichuk, Cheryl ^a,b   Gagnon, Bruno ^a,c   Mancini, Isabelle L ^a,d   Pereira, Jose L ^a,b   Bruera, Eduardo D ^a,b,e  

^a GREY NUNS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d JULES BORDET INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cognition; Delirium; Factor analysis; Palliative care; Phenomenology; Rating scale; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIRIUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; COGNITION DISORDERS; DELIRIUM; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034660652     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(20000615)88:12<2859::AID-CNCR29>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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