Patterns of symptoms in women after gynecologic surgery

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Liu, Shan ^a   Ercolano, Elizabeth ^b   Siefert, Mary Lou ^c   McCorkle, Ruth ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EVIDENCE BASED NURSING; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; HYPOTRICHOSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; NURSING; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PERIOPERATIVE NURSING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; COMORBIDITY; EVIDENCE-BASED NURSING; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; HYPESTHESIA; HYPOTRICHOSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PERIOPERATIVE NURSING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953059604     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/10.ONF.E133-E140     Document Type: Article

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