Journal Article

Journal Article

  • Submitted By: choneal
  • Date Submitted: 11/16/2008 7:53 AM
  • Category: Business
  • Words: 1694
  • Page: 7
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|Journal Article Research Critique |
|MBA 532 UA – Quantitative Business Analysis |
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|3/8/2008 |

Journal Article Research Critique by C. O’Neal
Introduction
Cancer patients experience a variety of symptoms that are associated with the disease process itself and with the treatment regimens used to control or eradicate the disease. The authors (Bender, Engberg, Donovan, Cohen, Houze, Rosenzweig, Mallory, Dunbar-Jacob, & Sereika, 2008) in their study, Symptom clusters in adults with chronic health problems and cancer as comorbidity, have attempted to discover symptom clusters that have may have been nestled in the data retrieved in two previous studies involving rheumatoid arthritis (RA) sufferers and individuals with urinary incontinence (UI). The Bender, et al. (2008) stated their research purpose was:
…to identify and compare symptom clusters in individuals with chronic health problems with cancer versus individuals with chronic health problems who do not have cancer. The secondary aim was to compare the number and types of comorbid chronic health problems for individuals with and without a history of cancer...

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