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Oral Health Assessment by Lay Personnel for Older Adults
Published on: February 2, 2020
Oral symptom assessment tools in patients with advanced cancer: a scoping review
Niamh Cleary1,2,3, Olivia Munnelly Mulkerrin4, Andrew Davies4,5,6
1Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. clearynm@tcd.ie.
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-specific generic symptom assessment scale (MSAS), and one cancer-specific oral symptom assessment scale (OSAS).
Conclusion:
Symptom assessment tools can facilitate good symptom control in clinical practice, and are an integral component of clinical research. The review identified four validated symptom assessment scales that could be utilised to assess oral symptoms in patients with advanced cancer.
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