The changing causal foundations of cancer-related symptom clustering during the final month of palliative care: A longitudinal study

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Olson, Karin ^a   Hayduk, Leslie ^a   Cree, Marilyn ^a   Cui, Ying ^a   Quan, Hue ^b   Hanson, John ^c   Lawlor, Peter ^a,d   Strasser, Florian ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Capital Health Edmonton   (Canada)

^c CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d Our Lady's Hospice Ltd Dublin   (Ireland)

^e CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CAUSAL MODELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DROWSINESS; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER; WELLBEING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

EID: 46449109752     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-8-36     Document Type: Article

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