Challenge of assessing symptoms in seriously ill intensive care unit patients: Can proxy reporters help?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2760-2767

  Puntillo, Kathleen A ^a   Neuhaus, John ^b   Arai, Shoshana ^a   Paul, Steven M ^a   Gropper, Michael A ^a   Cohen, Neal H ^a   Miaskowski, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

concordance; critical care; intensive care unit; proxy reporters; symptom assessment; symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONFUSION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CUSTODY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DYSPNEA; ETHNICITY; FAMILY; FATIGUE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNGER; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESTLESSNESS; SYMPTOM; THIRST; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROXY;

EID: 84866555175     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31825b94d8     Document Type: Article

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