Assessment of Symptom Clusters (original) (raw)

2007

Abstract

FFECTIVE symptom management in cancer care can significantly improve health-related quality of life. Clinical management of symptoms is based on the clinician’s thorough assessment of symptoms and their understanding of the multiple dimensions of cancer-related, treatment-related, and non-cancer‐related symptoms. These symptoms often occur in dyads or clusters of three or more, which present challenges for assessment and subsequent treatment. The occurrence of multiple symptoms has long been identified and treated by cancer care clinicians, yet this clinical phenomenon of a symptom cluster is just beginning to be systematically described and analyzed in the health care literature. This article explores the various challenges to symptom cluster assessment and considers approaches using a variety of measurement tools and methodologies.

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