The value of a comprehensive geriatric assessment for patient care in acutely hospitalized older patients with cancer

Oncologist

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1403-1412

  Hamaker, Marije E ^a   Buurman, Bianca M ^a   van Munster, Barbara C ^a,b   Kuper, Ingeborg M J A ^c   Smorenburg, Carolien H ^d   de Rooij, Sophia E ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b GELRE HOSPITALS   (Netherlands)

^c SLOTERVAART HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d Medical Centre Alkmaar   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Comprehensive geriatric assessment; Elderly; Patient care; Prognostication

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DELIRIUM; DEPRESSION; ELDERLY CARE; FALLING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; INDEPENDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MALNUTRITION; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAIN; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRICS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 80054822642     PISSN: 10837159     EISSN: 1549490X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.2010-0433     Document Type: Article

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