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JNCI Monographs 2007 2007(37):39-46; doi:10.1093/jncimonographs/lgm003
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press.

Conceptual Issues in Symptom Clusters Research and Their Implications for Quality-of-Life Assessment in Patients With Cancer

Christine Miaskowski, Bradley E. Aouizerat, Marylin Dodd, Bruce Cooper

Affiliations of authors: Department of Physiological Nursing (CM, BEA, MD) and Department of Community Health Systems (BC), University of California, San Francisco, CA

Correspondence to: Christine Miaskowski, RN, PhD, FAAN, Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California, 2 Koret Way, Box 0610—N631Y, San Francisco, CA 94143-0610 (chris.miaskowski{at}nursing.ucsf.edu).

The majority of the research on the various aspects of symptom management has focused on individual symptoms. However, patients with cancer often experience multiple symptoms simultaneously as a result of their disease and treatment. In 2001, symptom management researchers began to study the impact of symptom clusters on patient outcomes. Over the past 6 years, a number of conceptual reviews as well as several research studies have been published on symptom clusters in oncology patients. This paper summarizes the conceptual basis for symptom cluster research, describes two conceptual approaches to symptom cluster research, and discusses the implications of symptom clusters for quality-of-life research. The paper concludes with an enumeration of the critical considerations that need to be addressed if this area of scientific inquiry is to move forward.


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