The effects and expense of augmenting usual cancer clinic care with telephone problem-solving counseling

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 441-453

  Downe Wamboldt, Barbara L ^a   Butler, Lorna J ^a   Melanson, Patricia M ^a   Coulter, Lynn A ^a   Singleton, Jerome F ^a   Keefe, Janice M ^b   Bell, David G ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SAINT VINCENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Breast; Economic evaluation; Lung; Prostate cancer; Telephone counseling

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; COUNSELING; DEPRESSION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; JALOWIEC COPING SCALE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE TRAINING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOSOCIAL ADJUSTMENT TO ILLNESS SCALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL WORK; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELEPHONE; THERAPY EFFECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANADA; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COUNSELING; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REMOTE CONSULTATION;

EID: 36349020253     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NCC.0000300164.90768.ec     Document Type: Article

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