Symptom patterns of patients with head and neck cancer in a palliative care unit

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 556-559

  Lin, Ying Li ^a   Lin, I Ching ^a,b,c   Liou, Jenn Chang ^b  

^a CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; FENTANYL; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANDIDIASIS; CHEST TIGHTNESS; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COUGHING; DYSPHAGIA; FEEDING DISORDER; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STEROID THERAPY; SWELLING; TRACHEOSTOMY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 79957439292     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: 15577740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2010.0461     Document Type: Article

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