The Edmonton Symptom Assessment System: A 15-year retrospective review of validation studies (1991-2006)

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 111-122

  Nekolaichuk, Cheryl ^a,b   Watanabe, Sharon ^a   Beaumont, Crystal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b GREY NUNS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Edmonton Symptom Assessment System; ESAS; Instrument development; Literature review; Psychometrics; Validation studies

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; EDMONTON SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KIDNEY FAILURE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 42649093828     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216307087659     Document Type: Review

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