Symptom Expression in the Last Seven Days of Life among Cancer Patients Admitted to Acute Palliative Care Units

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 488-494

  Hui, David ^a   Dos Santos, Renata ^c   Chisholm, Gary B ^b   Bruera, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c BARRETOS CANCER HOSPITAL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anorexia; death; deglutition disorders; depression; dyspnea; neoplasms; pain; palliative care; symptom assessment; urinary incontinence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CANCER CENTER; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DROWSINESS; DYING; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; EPISTAXIS; FATIGUE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCLONUS; NAUSEA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; SWEATING; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; TERMINAL CARE; URINE INCONTINENCE; VAGINA DISCHARGE; WELLBEING; ADOLESCENT; DISEASE COURSE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TERMINAL CARE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942981531     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.09.003     Document Type: Article

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