Symptom clusters: Establishing the link between clinical practice and symptom management research

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 792-794

  Miaskowski, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; FATIGUE; FEVER; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOMNOLENCE; SYMPTOM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDITY; WASTING SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; FATIGUE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; RESEARCH; SLEEP DISORDERS; TERMINOLOGY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 33745939505     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-006-0038-5     Document Type: Editorial

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