Impact of a half-day multidisciplinary symptom control and palliative care outpatient clinic in a comprehensive cancer center on recommendations, symptom intensity, and patient satisfaction: A retrospective descriptive study

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 481-491

  Strasser, Florian ^a   Sweeney, Catherine ^b   Willey, Jie ^c   Benisch Tolley, Susanne ^c   Palmer, J Lynn ^c   Bruera, Eduardo ^c  

^a Kantonsspital ^*  (Switzerland)

^b ST PATRICK S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer care facilities; clinical competence; delivery of health care; pain clinics; professional patient relations

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DROWSINESS; DYSPNEA; FAMILY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NAUSEA; NURSE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NUTRITION; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHARMACIST; PHYSICIAN; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PSYCHIATRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLEEP; SOCIAL WORKER; SPEECH THERAPY; STANDARDIZATION; SYMPTOM; WELLBEING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PAIN; PAIN CLINICS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2542453697     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2003.10.011     Document Type: Article

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