Vocational rehabilitation services for patients with cancer: Design of a feasibility study incorporating a pilot randomised controlled trial among women with breast cancer following surgery

Trials

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kyle, Richard G ^a   Culbard, Bill ^a   Evans, Josie ^a   Gray, Nicola M ^b   Ayansina, Dolapo ^b   Hubbard, Gill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER REHABILITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; EUROPE; FATIGUE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF REPORT; ABSENTEEISM; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EMPLOYMENT; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL LEAVE; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PILOT STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION;

ABSENTEEISM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EMPLOYMENT; FATIGUE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REHABILITATION, VOCATIONAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; SCOTLAND; SICK LEAVE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79954563485     PISSN: 17456215     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-12-89     Document Type: Article

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