Impact on Quality of Life of a Telemedicine System Supporting Head and Neck Cancer Patients: A Controlled Trial During the Postoperative Period at Home

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 198-205

  van den Brink, Jaap L ^a   Moorman, Peter W ^a   de Boer, Maarten F ^a   Hop, Wim C J ^a   Pruyn, Jean F A ^b   Verwoerd, Carel D A ^a   van Bemmel, Jan H ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Institute for Health and Environmental Issues/IGO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LARYNGECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NECK DISSECTION; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; TELEMEDICINE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPUTER LITERACY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 33847181303     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2199     Document Type: Article

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