Oral symptom assessment tools in patients with advanced cancer: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Oral symptoms are common in patients with advanced cancer. The aim of this scoping review was to identify oral symptom assessment tools that have been specifically utilised in patients with "advanced cancer".

Methods

The review was conducted/reported according to international guidelines for undertaking scoping reviews. PubMed, Embase, and CINAHL were searched for articles involving adult patients with advanced cancer, which involved assessment of ≥ 2 oral symptoms, and which involved patients with > 1 type of cancer.

Results

The review identified four validated symptom assessment scales, including one cancer-specific quality of life scale (EORTC QLQ OH-15), one generic tool for assessing the "social impact" of specific oral problems (OHIP), one cancer-specifi

SUBMITTER: Cleary N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9385820 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature