Symptom clusters and quality of life in Korean patients with hepatocellular carcinoma

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-10

  Ryu, Eunjung ^a   Kim, Kyunghee ^b   Cho, Myung Sook ^c   Kwon, In Gak ^c   Kim, Hee Sun ^d   Fu, Mei R ^d  

^a Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^b Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

^c Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; Quality of life; Symptom clusters

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CONSTIPATION; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; KOREA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; STOMACH DISCOMFORT; STOMACH PAIN; SYMPTOM; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; TASTE DISORDER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANXIETY; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 74349085284     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e3181b4367e     Document Type: Article

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