Self-report measurement of pain & symptoms in palliative care patients: a comparison of verbal, visual and hand scoring methods in Sub-Saharan Africa

BACKGROUND: Despite a high incidence of life-limiting disease, there is a deficit of palliative care outcome evidence in sub-Saharan Africa. Providers of end of life care call for appropriate measurement tools. The objective is to compare four approaches to self-report pain and symptom measurement a...

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Autores principales: Blum, David, Selman, Lucy E, Agupio, Godfrey, Mashao, Thandi, Mmoledi, Keletso, Moll, Tony, Dinat, Natalya, Gwyther, Liz, Sebuyira, Lydia Mpanga, Ikin, Barbara, Downing, Julia, Kaasa, Stein, Higginson, Irene J, Harding, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4243734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25085579
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12955-014-0118-z

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4243734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25085579
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12955-014-0118-z

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