Differences in composition of symptom clusters between older and younger oncology patients

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1025-1034

  Yates, Patsy ^a   Miaskowski, Christine ^b   Cataldo, Janine K ^b   Paul, Steven M ^b   Cooper, Bruce A ^b   Alexander, Kimberly ^a   Aouizerat, Bradley ^b   Dunn, Laura ^c   Ritchie, Christine ^c   McCarthy, Alexandra ^a   Skerman, Helen ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; factor analysis; Symptom cluster

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ARM SWELLING; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; BLOATING; BODY IMAGE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER THERAPY; COGNITION; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION LOSS; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HAIR LOSS; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; LEG SWELLING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOSS OF APPETITE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALE; MEMORIAL SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT SCALE; MICTURITION DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD; MOUTH ULCER; NAUSEA; NERVOUSNESS; OVARY CANCER; PATIENT WORRY; PRIMARY TUMOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; PRURITUS; SADNESS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SKIN DISEASE; SLEEP DISORDER; SWEAT; SYMPTOM; TASTE DISORDER; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; XEROSTOMIA; AGE; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FACTOR ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNDROME; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNDROME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84931956584     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.11.296     Document Type: Article

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