Do high symptom scores trigger clinical actions? an audit after implementing electronic symptom screening

Journal of Oncology Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Seow, Hsien ^a   Sussman, Jonathan ^a   Martelli Reid, Lorraine ^a   Pond, Greg ^a   Bainbridge, Daryl ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; OPIATE; RESPIRATORY TRACT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ELECTRONIC SYMPTOM SCREENING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRESCRIPTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DOCUMENTATION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASMS; ONTARIO; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84875971039     PISSN: 15547477     EISSN: 1935469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JOP.2011.000525     Document Type: Article

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