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Symptom Variability During Repeated Measurement Among Hospice Patients With Advanced Cancer
American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 07/02/09
Lasheen W et al. - Symptom studies in advanced disease while difficult to conduct yield valuable information, symptom relationships changed daily; strict timing of data collection is crucial for data analysis, symptom monitoring following admission is an overlooked measure of risk assessment, symptom prevalence studies alone for treatment follow-up may be misleading, depression is an important predictor of symptoms and need to be more aggressively assessed and treated, demographic characteristics may help identify symptom patterns and better direct treatment, VRS rather than VAS was more reliable for assessing symptoms in hospice cancer patients.
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