Prevalence, intensity, and prognostic significance of common symptoms in terminally ill cancer patients

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 752-757

  Liu, Yong ^a   Zhang, Pei Ying ^b   Na, Jian ^a   Ma, Chao ^a   Huo, Wei Ling ^a   Han, Liang ^a   Yu, Yang ^a   Xi, Qing Song ^c  

^a XUZHOU CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^b MEDICAL SCHOOL OF SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DROWSINESS; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TERMINALLY ILL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880490508     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: 15577740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2013.0028     Document Type: Article

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