Satisfaction with rehydration therapy for terminally ill cancer patients: Concept construction, scale development, and identification of contributing factors

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 44-50

  Morita, Tatsuya ^a   Adachi, Isamu ^b  

^a Seirei Mikatabara Hospital   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Neoplasms; Palliative care; Rehydration; Satisfaction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CACHEXIA; CANCER PATIENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FLUID RETENTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; REHYDRATION; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; TERMINAL DISEASE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS; TERMINALLY ILL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036940665     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005200100301     Document Type: Article

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