Scott Jane A, Lasch Kathryn E, Barsevick Andrea M, Piault-Louis Elisabeth
Mapi Values UK, Bollington.
Oncol Nurs Forum. 2011 May;38(3):E191-203. doi: 10.1188/11.ONF.E191-E203.
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES: To systematically review published qualitative reports of descriptions of fatigue by patients with cancer and how cancer-related fatigue (CF) affects their lives.
MEDLINE®, CANCERLIT®, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature.
Two researchers conducted independent reviews of 667 patient quotes found in 154 articles published from 1996-2009 to identify concepts and language used to describe CF.
CF is more intense than the tiredness patients recalled from before diagnosis or treatment. Published patient quotes fail to adjudicate whether CF should be approached as a single symptom or a more complex symptom cluster.
Systematic study of patients with different cancer types and stages is needed to identify effective, valid, and reliable self-reported assessments of CF for clinical practice and trials.
目的/目标：系统回顾已发表的关于癌症患者疲劳描述以及癌症相关疲劳（CF）如何影响其生活的定性报告。
医学文献数据库（MEDLINE®）、癌症文献数据库（CANCERLIT®）、Cochrane系统评价数据库以及护理与联合健康文献累积索引。
两名研究人员对1996年至2009年发表的154篇文章中找到的667条患者引述进行了独立回顾，以确定用于描述CF的概念和语言。
CF比患者回忆起的诊断或治疗前的疲倦更为严重。已发表的患者引述未能判定CF应被视为单一症状还是更复杂的症状群。
需要对不同癌症类型和阶段的患者进行系统研究，以确定用于临床实践和试验的有效、可靠且可信的CF自我报告评估方法。
