Certain bio-psychosocial-spiritual problems associated with dyspnea among advanced cancer patients in Taiwan

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1763-1770

  Ho, Chih Te ^a   Hsu, Hua Shui ^a   Li, Chia Ing ^a   Liu, Chiu Shong ^b   Lin, Chin Yu ^a   Lin, Cheng Chieh ^a,c,d   Lin, Wen Yuan ^a,b,c  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Advanced cancer; Anxiety; Dyspnea; Fear of death; Palliative care; Propriety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BILIARY TRACT CANCER; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; EVALUATION RESEARCH; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PAIN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; RELIGION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TAIWAN;

ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONSTIPATION; COUGH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; NEOPLASMS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PALLIATIVE CARE; PLEURAL EFFUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPIRITUALITY; TAIWAN; VOMITING;

EID: 84863986052     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-011-1273-y     Document Type: Article

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