Complementary medicine in cancer care: Adding a therapy dog to the team

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 289-291

  Marcus, Dawn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal assisted therapy; Anxiety; Clostridium difficile; Isolation; Loneliness; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Pain

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY; ANXIETY; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER THERAPY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; GROUP THERAPY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; MASSAGE; MUSIC THERAPY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; THERAPY EFFECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; DEPRESSION; DOGS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; ONCOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PETS;

EID: 84865645442     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: 15343081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-012-0264-0     Document Type: Review

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