Symptoms and quality of life of advanced cancer patients at home: A cross-sectional study in Shanghai, China

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 789-797

  Wang, Yixin ^a   Shen, Jie ^a   Xu, Yan ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Advanced cancer patients; Palliative care; Quality of life; Symptom

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CHINA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF CANCER THERAPY GENERAL SCALE; HEALTH CENTER; HOME; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; M.D. ANDERSON SYMPTOM INVENTORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SADNESS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYMPTOM; COMMUNITY CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 80051673078     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-010-0884-z     Document Type: Article

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