Patient-reported quality of supportive care among patients with colorectal cancer in the veterans affairs health care system

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 809-815

  Van Ryn, Michelle ^a   Phelan, Sean M ^a   Arora, Neeraj K ^d   Haggstrom, David A ^e   Jackson, George L ^f,g   Zafar, S Yousuf ^g   Griffin, Joan M ^b   Zullig, Leah L ^f,h   Provenzale, Dawn ^f,g   Yeazel, Mark W ^c   Jindal, Rahul M ⁱ   Clauser, Steven B ^d  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

ⁱ WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; VETERANS HEALTH; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SURVEY; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGISTER; RISK; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84899679748     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2013.49.4302     Document Type: Article

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