Do patient-reported symptoms predict emergency department visits in cancer patients? a population-based analysis

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Barbera, Lisa ^a,c   Atzema, Clare ^a,c   Sutradhar, Rinku ^c   Seow, Hsien ^c,d   Howell, Doris ^b   Husain, Amna ^a   Sussman, Jonathan ^d   Earle, Craig ^a,c   Liu, Ying ^c   Dudgeon, Deborah ^e  

^a Management and Evaluation ^*  (Canada)

^b Faculty of Nursing   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; DATA BASE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DROWSINESS; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALE; NAUSEA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLEURA EFFUSION; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOM; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; WELLBEING;

EID: 84876683221     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2012.10.010     Document Type: Article

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