Survey of current functional outcomes assessment practices in patients with head and neck cancer: Initial project of the head and neck research network

Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 523-531

  Rieger, Jana M ^a   Lam Tang, Judith A ^a   Harris, Jeffrey ^b   Seikaly, Hadi ^b   Wolfaardt, Johan ^c   Glaum, Ricarda ^d   Schmelzeisen, Rainer ^d   Buchbinder, Daniel ^e   Jacobson, Adam ^e   Lazarus, Cathy ^e   Markowitz, Erika ^f   Okay, Devin ^e   Urken, Mark ^e   Aitasalo, Kalle ^g   Happonen, Risto Pekka ^g   Kinnunen, Ilpo ^g   Laine, Juhani ^g   Soukka, Tero ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c Alberta Health Services Covenant Health University of Alberta   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f Thyroid Head and Neck Cancer (THANC) Foundation   (United States)

^g TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Functional outcomes; Head and neck cancer; Speech; Swallowing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RESEARCH; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; NECK MALFORMATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST; SWALLOWING; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CANADA; DEGLUTITION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957200513     PISSN: 19160216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7070.2010.090339     Document Type: Article

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