6
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: not found

      Prevalence of symptoms in older cancer patients receiving palliative care: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

      Read this article at

      ScienceOpenPublisherPubMed
      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          Symptom control is an essential part of palliative care and important to achieve optimal quality of life. Studies showed that patients with all types of advanced cancer suffer from diverse and often severe symptoms. Research focusing on older persons is scarce because this group is often excluded from studies. Consequently, it is unclear which symptoms older palliative care patients with cancer experience and what is the prevalence of these symptoms. To date, no systematic review has been performed on the prevalence of symptoms in older cancer patients receiving palliative care.

          Related collections

          Author and article information

          Journal
          J Pain Symptom Manage
          Journal of pain and symptom management
          1873-6513
          0885-3924
          Jan 2014
          : 47
          : 1
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Nursing Science, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. Electronic address: Aurelie.VanLancker@UGent.be.
          [2 ] Department of Geriatric Medicine, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.
          [3 ] Nursing Science, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; Nursing Science, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.
          [4 ] Nursing Science, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
          [5 ] Belgian Interuniversity Collaboration of Evidence-Based Medicine (BICEP), Belgian Center for Evidence-Based Medicine, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
          Article
          S0885-3924(13)00233-9
          10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2013.02.016
          23764109
          4d4a48b7-3bec-476e-bea5-14f11922ecd8
          Copyright © 2014 U.S. Cancer Pain Relief Committee. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
          History

          Elderly,aged,older person,palliative care,prevalence,signs and symptoms,systematic review

          Comments

          Comment on this article