Benefits of using a chemotherapy symptom assessment scale
Dikken, C.
Nursing Times 99(39): 50-51
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0954-7762 PMID: 14562665 Document Number: 558968
'Medical Intervention aims to eliminate disease, mitigate disease effect, and maximise quality of life' (Ingham and Portenoy, 1998). Diseases present with signs and symptoms: signs can be measured objectively, symptoms cannot. It is not just disease processes that cause symptoms but also the treatment of the disease.
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