Predictors of high symptom burden in gynecologic oncology outpatients: Who should be referred to outpatient palliative care?

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 698-702

  Lefkowits, Carolyn ^a,b   W Rabow, Michael ^a   E Sherman, Alexander ^a   K Kiet, Tuyen ^a   Ruskin, Rachel ^a   Chan, John K ^a   Chen, Lee May ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Gynecologic cancer; Palliative care; Symptom assessment; Symptom burden; Symptom management

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; ONCOLOGY; OUTPATIENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOM; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; WELLBEING;

GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; PALLIATIVE CARE; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; SYMPTOM BURDEN; SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT;

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; PALLIATIVE CARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84896403250     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2014.01.038     Document Type: Article

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