A Morbidity Screening Tool for identifying fatigue, pain, upper limb dysfunction and lymphedema after breast cancer treatment: A validity study

European Journal of Oncology Nursing

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 218-227

  Bulley, Catherine ^a   Coutts, Fiona ^a   Blyth, Christine ^a   Jack, Wilma ^b   Chetty, Udi ^b   Barber, Matthew ^b   Tan, Chee Wee ^a  

^a QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Lymphedema; Morbidity; Pain; Upper limb function; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISABILITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHEDEMA; MASS SCREENING; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED KINGDOM; UPPER LIMB FUNCTION; VALIDATION STUDY; VALIDITY;

FATIGUE; LYMPHEDEMA; MORBIDITY; PAIN; UPPER LIMB FUNCTION; VALIDITY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LYMPHEDEMA; MASS SCREENING; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84894684280     PISSN: 14623889     EISSN: 15322122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejon.2013.10.006     Document Type: Article

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