Impact of a pivot nurse in oncology on patients with lung or breast cancer: Symptom distress, fatigue, quality of life, and use of healthcare resources

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 948-954

  Skrutkowski, Myriam ^a   Saucier, Andréanne ^a   Eades, Margaret ^a   Swidzinski, Marika ^a   Ritchie, Judith ^a   Marchionni, Caroline ^a   Ladouceur, Martin ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CANADA; CANCER CENTER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODEL; NURSING; NURSING CARE; ONCOLOGY NURSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; EMERGENCIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH RESOURCES; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NURSING; NURSING CARE; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUEBEC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 57849163739     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/08.ONF.948-954     Document Type: Article

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