Screening and Assessment of Cancer-Related Fatigue: A Clinical Practice Guideline for Health Care Providers

Overview

Journal Phys Ther

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Rehabilitation Medicine

Date 2022 Sep 30

PMID 36179114

Authors

Mary Insana Fisher

Joy C Cohn

Shana E Harrington

Jeanette Q Lee

Daniel Malone

Affiliations

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Abstract

Impact: Health care providers should screen for and assess CRF using one of the tools recommended by this CPG.

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