Using the symptom monitor in a randomized controlled trial: The effect on symptom prevalence and severity

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 22-30

  Hoekstra, Johanna ^a   De Vos, Rien ^a   Van Duijn, Nico P ^a   Schadé, Egbert ^a   Bindels, Patrick J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Palliative care; Patient; Self reports; Symptom control

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYMPTOM; VOMITING;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 31344480690     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2005.06.014     Document Type: Article

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