Return-to-work guidance and support for colorectal cancer patients: A feasibility study

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Bains, Manpreet ^a   Munir, Fehmidah ^b   Yarker, Joanna ^c   Steward, Will ^d   Thomas, Anne ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Colorectal; Employment; Intervention; Rehabilitation; Return to work; Support

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONSULTATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETURN TO WORK GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT; WELLBEING; WORK; WORK CAPACITY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REHABILITATION, VOCATIONAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVORS;

EID: 80255122820     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: 15389804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e31820a4c68     Document Type: Article

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