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| Amna HusainSummaryAffiliation: University of Toronto Country: Canada Publications
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Advanced lung cancer patients' experience with continuity of care and supportive care needsAmna Husain
Division of Palliative Care, University of Toronto, Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care, Mount Sinai Hospital, 60 Murray St, 4th Floor, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5T 3L9
Support Care Cancer 21:1351-8. 2013..The study focuses attention on continuity of care as an important aspect of optimizing outcomes in cancer care...- Subgroups of advanced cancer patients clustered by their symptom profiles: quality-of-life outcomesAmna Husain
Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Palliat Med 14:1246-53. 2011..This study clustered patients by their symptom profiles to identify subgroups that may be at higher risk for poor quality of life (QOL) and that may, therefore, benefit most from targeted interventions... 
Women experience higher levels of fatigue than men at the end of life: a longitudinal home palliative care studyAmna F Husain
Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care, Mount Sinai Hospital, and Division of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Pain Symptom Manage 33:389-97. 2007..Assessment of fatigue should include the dimension of QOL important for both women and men...- Malignant ascites symptom cluster in patients referred for paracentesisAmna Husain
Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Ann Surg Oncol 17:461-9. 2010..Malignant ascites (MA) is a distressing problem usually managed by repeated paracenteses. Paracentesis represents a meaningful time point in identifying patients with a specific presentation... - Trajectory of performance status and symptom scores for patients with cancer during the last six months of lifeHsien Seow
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Clin Oncol 29:1151-8. 2011..This article describes the trajectory of ESAS and PPS scores 6 months before death... - Symptom clusters in a population-based ambulatory cancer cohort validated using bootstrap methodsDoris Howell
Ontario Cancer Institute and Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Electronic address
Eur J Cancer 48:3073-81. 2012..The purpose of this study was to identify and validate common symptom clusters in a large population-based cohort of ambulatory cancer subjects... - Opioid prescription after pain assessment: a population-based cohort of elderly patients with cancerLisa Barbera
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Clin Oncol 30:1095-9. 2012..The purpose of this study was to measure opioid prescription (OP) rates in elderly cancer outpatients around the time of assessment for pain and to evaluate factors associated with receiving OPs for those with severe pain... - Symptom burden and performance status in a population-based cohort of ambulatory cancer patientsLisa Barbera
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cancer 116:5767-76. 2010..In a broad cross-section of cancer outpatients, the authors describe the ESAS and PPS scores and their relation to patient characteristics... - Modeling the longitudinal transitions of performance status in cancer outpatients: time to discuss palliative careRinku Sutradhar
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Pain Symptom Manage 45:726-34. 2013..Understanding the longitudinal transitions of performance status among persons with cancer can assist providers in determining the appropriate time to initiate palliative care support... - The association of the palliative performance scale and hazard of death in an ambulatory cancer populationHsien Seow
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Palliat Med 16:156-62. 2013..However, little research has examined the association of the PPS with hazard of death in ambulatory populations... - Do patient-reported symptoms predict emergency department visits in cancer patients? A population-based analysisLisa Barbera
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ann Emerg Med 61:427-437.e5. 2013..The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between individual patient symptoms and symptom severity, with the likelihood of an emergency department (ED) visit... - Resource use and costs of end-of-Life/palliative care: Ontario adult cancer patients dying during 2002 and 2003Hugh Walker
Departments of Oncology and of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen s University, 10 Stuart Street, 2nd Level, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
J Palliat Care 27:79-88. 2011..Our results suggest that acute care consumes 75 percent of EOL/PAL funding and that only a small proportion of health care services used by EOL/PAL care cancer patients is likely to be formal palliative care... - Multistate analysis of interval-censored longitudinal data: application to a cohort study on performance status among patients diagnosed with cancerRinku Sutradhar
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Am J Epidemiol 173:468-75. 2011..Methods for multistate analysis should be used by epidemiologists, since they prove particularly useful for examining the complexities of disease processes... 
Factors Associated with End-of-Life Health Service Use in Patients Dying of CancerLisa Barbera
Radiation Oncologist, Odette Cancer Centre, Adjunct Scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Healthc Policy 5:e125-43. 2010..They also serve as a baseline for future comparison, which is of particular interest since new government policies directed at end-of-life care were recently introduced...- Decision making in palliative radiation therapy: reframing hope in caregivers and patients with brain metastasesJacqueline Sze
Princess Margaret Hospital, University of Toronto, 5th Floor, 610 University Avenue, M5G 2M9, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Support Care Cancer 14:1055-63. 2006..The blurred boundary between hopes and expectations for WBRT creates unique challenges in joint treatment decision making for patients with brain metastases and their caregivers... - Review of patterns of practice and patients' preferences in the treatment of bone metastases with palliative radiotherapyNicole M E Bradley
Department of Health Studies and Gerontology, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Support Care Cancer 15:373-85. 2007..Since the 1980s, randomized clinical trials showed that single fraction radiotherapy (RT) provided equal pain relief as multiple fractions of RT in the treatment of bone metastases...