Family caregiver burden, skills preparedness, and quality of life in non-small cell lung cancer

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 337-346

  Grant, Marcia ^a   Sun, Virginia ^a   Fujinami, Rebecca ^a   Sidhu, Rupinder ^a   Otis Green, Shirley ^a   Juarez, Gloria ^a   Klein, Linda ^a   Ferrell, Betty ^a  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; COST OF ILLNESS; FAMILY NURSING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; FAMILY NURSING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONCOLOGY NURSING; QUALITY OF LIFE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893088427     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/13.ONF.337-346     Document Type: Article

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