Performance status and symptom scores of women with gynecologic cancer at the end of life

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 971-978

  Spoozak, Lori ^a   Seow, Hsien ^b,c,d   Liu, Ying ^d   Wright, Jason ^e   Barbera, Lisa ^d,f,g,h  

^a Division of Gynecologic Oncology   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^e Division of Gynecologic Oncology ^*  (United States)

^f Department of Radiation Oncology ^*  (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^h DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

End of life; Gynecologic cancer; Performance status; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APPETITE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PAIN; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DROWSINESS; EDMONTON SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT SYSTEM; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OVARY CANCER; PALLIATIVE PERFORMANCE SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINAL CARE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER; WELLBEING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; TERMINALLY ILL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880423667     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: 15251438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IGC.0b013e318291e5ef     Document Type: Conference Paper

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