Routine symptom assessment: Good for practice and good for business

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 537-538

  Bruera, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; EDITORIAL; FATIGUE; HAIR LOSS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NAUSEA; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 44449120185     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-008-0433-1     Document Type: Editorial

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