Interventions for fatigue and weight loss in adults with advanced progressive illness

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2017, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Payne, Cathy ^a   Wiffen, Philip J ^b   Martin, Suzanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATIGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPLICATION; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EMACIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEOPLASM;

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EMACIATION; FATIGUE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEOPLASMS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 85018494201     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD008427.pub3     Document Type: Review

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