Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Volume 39, Issue 4 , Pages 655-662 , April 2010

Significance of Symptom Clustering in Palliative Care of Advanced Cancer Patients

  • Jaw-Shiun Tsai, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Care Unit, College of Medicine and Hospital, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chih-Hsun Wu, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Care Unit, College of Medicine and Hospital, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Division of Geriatric Research, Institute of Population Health Science, National Health Research Institutes, Ju-Nan, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Tai-Yuan Chiu, MD, MHSci

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Care Unit, College of Medicine and Hospital, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Ching-Yu Chen, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Care Unit, College of Medicine and Hospital, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Division of Geriatric Research, Institute of Population Health Science, National Health Research Institutes, Ju-Nan, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Ching-Yu Chen, MD, Department of Family Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, 7 Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei, Taiwan.

,Accepted 28 September 2009.

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 This study was supported by the National Science Council (NSC 91-2314-B-002-224) and the Department of Health (DOH92-HP-1506), Executive Yuan, Taipei, Taiwan.

PII: S0885-3924(10)00078-3

doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2009.09.005

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Volume 39, Issue 4 , Pages 655-662 , April 2010

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