Unmet supportive needs of cancer patients in an acute care hospital in Japan-a census study

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1393-1403

  Fujisawa, Daisuke ^a,b   Park, Sunre ^a,b   Kimura, Rieko ^b   Suyama, Ikuko ^b   Koyama, Yurie ^c   Takeuchi, Mari ^a,b   Yoshikawa, Hiroka ^a,b   Hashiguchi, Saori ^a,b   Shirahase, Joichiro ^a,b   Kato, Motoichiro ^a   Takeda, Junzo ^a   Kashima, Haruo ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Gifu College of Nursing   (Japan)

Author keywords

Predictive factors; Psychological distress; Service use; Unmet supportive needs; Worry

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; OPIATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BRIEF CANCER-RELATED WORRY INVENTORY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; KNOWLEDGE; M.D. ANDERSON SYMPTOM INVENTORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PAIN; PERSONAL VALUE; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYMPTOM; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; XEROSTOMIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79952117479     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-009-0761-9     Document Type: Article

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