Review: Symptom clusters: Myth or reality?

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 373-385

  Aktas, Aynur ^a   Walsh, Declan ^a   Rybicki, Lisa ^b  

^a TAUSSIG CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cluster; Oncology; Symptom clusters; Syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; ANXIETY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INSOMNIA; NAUSEA; NEOPLASM; PAIN; PAIN PARAMETERS; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VOMITING; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; MENTAL DISEASE; SYNDROME;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FATIGUE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SYNDROME;

EID: 77953079886     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216310367842     Document Type: Review

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