Interviews with patients with advanced cancer-Another step towards an international cancer pain classification system

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2491-2500

  Knudsen, Anne Kari ^a   Aass, Nina ^b,c   Heitzer, Ellen ^d   Klepstad, Pal ^a,e   Hjermstad, Marianne Jensen ^a,c   Schippinger, Walter ^d   Brenne, Elisabeth ^a   Kaasa, Stein ^a   Wasteson, Elisabet ^a,f  

^a TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^e NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^f MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cancer; Classification; Pain; Palliative care; PROs; Qualitative method

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADDICTION; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BREAKTHROUGH PAIN; CANCER PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NORWAY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RATING SCALE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NORWAY; PAIN; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 84868489435     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-011-1361-z     Document Type: Article

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