Discrepancies in performance status scores as determined by cancer patients and oncologists: are they influenced by depression?

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 555-561

  Jeon, Hong Jin ^a   Shim, Eun Jung ^b   Shin, Yong Wook ^a   Oh, Do Youn ^a   Im, Seock Ah ^a   Heo, Dae Seog ^a   Hahm, Bong Jin ^a,b  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Depression; ECOG; Performance status

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 36149001366     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2007.08.007     Document Type: Article

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