Conceptual issues in symptom clusters research and their implications for quality-of-life assessment in patients with cancer.
Conceptual issues in symptom clusters research and their implications for quality-of-life assessment in patients with cancer.
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10.1093/jncimonographs/lgm003
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
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Cooper, Bruce
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作者：
Miaskowski, Christine;Aouizerat, Bradley E;Cooper, Bruce
大多数关于症状管理各个方面的研究都集中在个别症状上。然而，癌症患者往往由于他们的疾病和治疗而同时经历多种症状。2001年，症状管理研究人员开始研究症状群对患者预后的影响。在过去的6年里，关于肿瘤患者的症状群发表了一些概念性综述和几项研究研究。本文概述了症状群研究的概念基础，描述了症状群研究的两种概念性方法，并讨论了症状群对生活质量研究的启示。论文最后列举了如果这一科学研究领域要向前发展，需要解决的关键问题。
The majority of the research on the various aspects of symptom management has focused on individual symptoms. However, patients with cancer often experience multiple symptoms simultaneously as a result of their disease and treatment. In 2001, symptom management researchers began to study the impact of symptom clusters on patient outcomes. Over the past 6 years, a number of conceptual reviews as well as several research studies have been published on symptom clusters in oncology patients. This paper summarizes the conceptual basis for symptom cluster research, describes two conceptual approaches to symptom cluster research, and discusses the implications of symptom clusters for quality-of-life research. The paper concludes with an enumeration of the critical considerations that need to be addressed if this area of scientific inquiry is to move forward.