The unrecognised cost of cancer patients' unrelieved symptoms: A nationwide follow-up of their surviving partners

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1540-1545

  ValdimarsdOttir U ^a   Helgason, A R ^a,c   Adolfsson, J ^a,b   Steineck, G ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c Stockholm Centre of Public Health   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Bereavement; Family; Psychological; Symptom control; Terminal care

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; COPING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE COST; LONG TERM CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SWEDEN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TERMINAL CARE; WELLBEING;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; BEREAVEMENT; CARCINOMA; CAREGIVERS; DEPRESSION; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PATIENTS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWEDEN; TERMINAL CARE; TRANQUILIZING AGENTS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; WIDOWHOOD;

EID: 0037141473     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6600271     Document Type: Article

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