Evaluating Cognitive, Emotional, and Physical Fatigue Domains in Daily Practice by Single-Item Questions in Patients With Advanced Cancer: A Cross-Sectional Pragmatic Study

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 505-514

  Strasser, Florian ^a,b   Müller Käser, Iris ^b   Dietrich, Daniel ^c  

^a CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b Kantonsspital St Gallen Division of Oncology Haematology   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS GROUP FOR CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH SAKK   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

assessment; Fatigue; quality of life; single item assessment; symptom control

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCREENING; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70349736086     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2008.12.009     Document Type: Article

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