Palliative care needs of cancer outpatients receiving chemotherapy: An audit of a clinical screening project

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 101-107

  Morita, Tatsuya ^a   Fujimoto, Koji ^a   Namba, Miki ^a   Sasaki, Naoko ^a   Ito, Tomoko ^a   Yamada, Chika ^a   Ohba, Arisa ^a   Hiroyoshi, Motoki ^a   Niwa, Hiroshi ^a   Yamada, Takeshi ^a   Noda, Tsuneo ^a  

^a SEIREI MIKATAHARA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy head; Neoplasms; Outpatient; Palliative care team; Screening

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CAPECITABINE; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; GEFITINIB; GEMCITABINE; IRINOTECAN; METHOTREXATE; NAVELBINE; OXALIPLATIN; TAXANE DERIVATIVE; TEGAFUR;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CONSTIPATION; DECISION MAKING; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DRUG FEVER; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH DISEASE; NAUSEA; OVARY CANCER; PAIN; PANCREAS CANCER; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOMNOLENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; UTERUS CANCER;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OUTPATIENTS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 36948999573     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-007-0271-6     Document Type: Article

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