Making Cancer Rehabilitation Services Work for Cancer Patients: Recommendations for Research and Practice to Improve Employment Outcomes

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Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2017, Pages S398-S406

  Alfano, Catherine M ^a   Kent, Erin E ^b   Padgett, Lynne S ^c   Grimes, Melvin ^b   de Moor, Janet S ^b  

^a American Cancer Society Inc   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ANXIETY DISORDER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REHABILITATION; CANCER THERAPY; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; EMPLOYER; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; LYMPHEDEMA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROPATHY; PAIN; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYMPTOM; ADULT; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESEARCH; RETURN TO WORK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVOR;

ADULT; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REHABILITATION; RESEARCH; RETURN TO WORK; SURVIVORS;

EID: 85029918774     PISSN: 19341482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2017.06.019     Document Type: Review

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