Impact of a palliative care consultation team on cancer-related symptoms in advanced cancer patients referred to an outpatient supportive care clinic

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 49-56

  Yennurajalingam, Sriram ^a   Urbauer, Diana L ^a   Casper, Katie L B ^a   Reyes Gibby, Cielito C ^a   Chacko, Ray ^a   Poulter, Valerie ^a   Bruera, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

interdisciplinary team; palliative care; Symptom control; symptom distress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CONSULTATION; DEPRESSION; DROWSINESS; DYSPNEA; EDMONTON SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT SYSTEM; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORIAL DELIRIUM ASSESSMENT SCALE; NAUSEA; OUTPATIENT CARE; RATING SCALE; WELLBEING; AMBULATORY CARE; COMORBIDITY; EATING DISORDERS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NURSING; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AMBULATORY CARE; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ANXIETY; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; EATING DISORDERS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TERMINAL CARE; TEXAS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78651314854     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2010.03.017     Document Type: Article

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