Visual graphical analysis: A technique to investigate symptom trajectories over time

Nursing Research

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 195-201

  Brown, Carlton G ^a   McGuire, Deborah B ^b   Beck, Susan L ^a   Peterson, Douglas E ^c,d   Mooney, Kathleen H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^c School of Dental Medicine

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Methodological study; Mucositis; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; NURSING RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMATITIS; TELEMEDICINE; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; NURSING RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STOMATITIS; TELEMEDICINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34248362829     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NNR.0000270029.82736.5a     Document Type: Article

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