Health care providers underestimate symptom intensities of cancer patients: A multicenter European study

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Laugsand, Eivor A ^a   Sprangers, Mirjam A G ^b   Bjordal, Kristin ^c   Skorpen, Frank ^a   Kaasa, Stein ^a,d   Klepstad, Pål ^a,d  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; OPIATE;

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CONSTIPATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DRUG ABUSE; DYSPNEA; EUROPE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NAUSEA; PAIN; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SLEEP DISORDER; SYMPTOM; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NURSING STAFF; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 77956662483     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-8-104     Document Type: Article

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