Symptom burden in palliative care patients: Perspectives of patients, their family caregivers, and their attending physicians

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1955-1962

  Oechsle, Karin ^a   Goerth, Kathrin ^a   Bokemeyer, Carsten ^a   Mehnert, Anja ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Burden; Distress; Family caregiver; Palliative care; Physical symptoms; Physician; Psychological symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ANXIETY; APPETITE DISORDER; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MALE; MEMORIAL SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT SCALE; NAUSEA; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; SLEEP DISORDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT DURATION; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICIANS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84878723320     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-013-1747-1     Document Type: Article

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