High Outpatient Pain Intensity Scores Predict Impending Hospital Admissions in Patients with Cancer

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 180-185

  Wagner Johnston, Nina D ^a   Carson, Kathryn A ^b   Grossman, Stuart A ^c  

^a USA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer pain; elderly; hospitalizations; Outpatient

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER CENTER; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; ONCOLOGY; OUTPATIENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CODING; PREDICTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOMA;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 75749131076     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2009.06.012     Document Type: Article

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