Monitoring Symptoms in Patients with Advanced Illness in Long-Term Care: A Pilot Study

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 168-174

  Brechtl, John R ^a   Murshed, Shaiqua ^a   Homel, Peter ^a   Bookbinder, Marilyn ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced illness; end of life care; ESAS; long term care; quality improvement; symptom assessment; symptom distress

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DROWSINESS; DYSPNEA; EDMONTON SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT SCALE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HICCUP; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NAUSEA; PAIN; PATIENT MONITORING; PROGNOSIS; PRURITUS; RATING SCALE; STOMATITIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VOMITING; WELLBEING;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEW YORK; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 33746317487     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2006.02.012     Document Type: Article

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