Innovative use of quality-of-life data: Correlating physiologic parameters with patient-centered symptoms - The example of anemia on the vitality of surgical oncology patients

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 47-51

  Velanovich, Vic ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anemia; Cancer related symptoms; Fatigue; Quality of life; Surgical oncology

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PATIENT; CARCINOID; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DUODENUM CARCINOMA; ENERGY METABOLISM; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LEUKEMIA; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVARY CARCINOMA; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; SARCOMA; SHORT FORM 36; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; SURGICAL PATIENT; SYMPTOM; VATER PAPILLA CARCINOMA;

AGED; ANEMIA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 42249094736     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1553350608316541     Document Type: Article

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