The added value of assessing the 'most troublesome' symptom among patients with cancer in the palliative phase

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 223-229

  Hoekstra, Johanna ^a   Vernooij Dassen, Myrra J F J ^b   de Vos, Rien ^a   Bindels, Patrick J E ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Assessment; Cancer; Palliative care; Patients; Symptom experience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONITOR; NAUSEA; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANOREXIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONSTIPATION; COUGH; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASMS; NETHERLANDS; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 33846069183     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2006.08.001     Document Type: Article

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