The Relationship Between Cancer-Related Fatigue and Patient Satisfaction with Quality of Life in Cancer

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 40-47

  Gupta, Digant ^a   Lis, Christopher G ^a   Grutsch, James F ^a  

^a CANCER TREATMENT CENTERS OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; Fatigue; quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FAMILY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 34250790755     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2006.10.012     Document Type: Article

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