Cancer in nursing homes: Characteristics and health-related quality of life among cognitively intact residents with and without cancer

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 295-301

  Drageset, Jorunn ^a   Eide, Geir Egil ^b   Ranhoff, Anette Hylen ^b  

^a BERGEN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Geriatric; Health related quality of life; Nursing home; Older; Pain; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; SHORT FORM 36;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; NURSING HOMES; PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84862888671     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: 15389804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e31822e7cb8     Document Type: Article

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