Background Collaborative care interventions to treat depression have begun to be tested in
settings outside of primary care. However, few studies have expanded the collaborative care …

Background Although multiple measures of the causes and consequences of chronic non-
cancer pain (CNCP) are available and can inform pain management, no quantitative …

Objective Our aim is to examine whether provider screening for physical and emotional
symptoms, as reported by medical oncology outpatients, varies across medical oncology …

SUTHERLAND G., HILL D., MORAND M., PRUDEN M. & MCLACHLAN S.‐A.(2009)
European Journal of Cancer Care Assessing the unmet supportive care needs of newly …

Abstract Purpose Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are used to assess patients' symptoms
and supportive care needs. While PROs are increasingly employed in clinical practice …

Background: Symptom assessment is critical to understand the effectiveness of cancer
treatment. Traditionally, clinicians have provided the information about cancer patients' …

Background Cancer impacts on patients and their families across a range of different
domains. For that reason, optimal cancer care has moved away from a disease-centric focus …

Introduction Cancer symptom monitoring and management interventions can address
concerns that may otherwise go undertreated. However, such programmes and their …

Purpose Symptom burden is an established concept in oncology encompassing the
presence and severity of symptoms experienced by cancer patients. Few studies have …

Goals Somatization refers to patients who transform distress and global suffering into pain
and symptom expression. We have observed the opposite phenomenon in some outpatients …