Study Protocol: Phase III single-blinded fast-track pragmatic randomised controlled trial of a complex intervention for breathlessness in advanced disease

Trials

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Farquhar, Morag C ^a   Prevost, A Toby ^b   McCrone, Paul ^b   Higginson, Irene J ^b   Gray, Jennifer ^c   Brafman Kennedy, Barbara ^c   Booth, Sara ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; OPIATE;

ARTICLE; BREATHLESSNESS INTERVENTION SERVICE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DYSPNEA; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; NEOPLASM; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TREATMENT DURATION; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM;

CAREGIVERS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DYSPNEA; ENGLAND; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; RESEARCH DESIGN; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 79956222019     PISSN: 17456215     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-12-130     Document Type: Article

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