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Karen O. Anderson
Researcher at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Publications - 45
Citations - 4232
Karen O. Anderson is an academic researcher from University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer & Cancer pain. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 44 publications receiving 3697 citations. Previous affiliations of Karen O. Anderson include University of Texas at Austin.
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The Unequal Burden of Pain: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pain
Carmen R. Green,Karen O. Anderson,Tamara A. Baker,Lisa C. Campbell,Sheila A. Decker,Roger B. Fillingim,Donna A. Kaloukalani,Kathryn Eilene Lasch,Cynthia D. Myers,Raymond C. Tait,Knox H. Todd,April Hazard Vallerand +11 more
TL;DR: Racial and ethnic disparities in pain perception, assessment, and treatment were found in all settings and across all types of pain and the literature suggests that the sources of pain disparities among racial and ethnic minorities are complex.
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Racial and ethnic disparities in pain: causes and consequences of unequal care.
TL;DR: This review reveals the persistence of racial and ethnic disparities in acute, chronic, cancer, and palliative pain care across the lifespan and treatment settings, with minorities receiving lesser quality pain care than non-Hispanic whites.
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Minority cancer patients and their providers: pain management attitudes and practice.
Karen O. Anderson,Tito R. Mendoza,Vicente Valero,Stephen P. Richman,Christy A. Russell,Judith Hurley,Cindy DeLeon,Patricia Washington,Guadalupe R. Palos,Richard Payne,Charles S. Cleeland +10 more
TL;DR: The goals of the current studies were to determine the pain treatment needs of socioeconomically disadvantaged African‐American and Hispanic patients with recurrent or metastatic cancer and to assess the attitudes of health care professionals who treat them.
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Cancer pain management among underserved minority outpatients: perceived needs and barriers to optimal control.
Karen O. Anderson,Stephen P. Richman,Judith Hurley,Guadalupe R. Palos,Vicente Valero,Tito R. Mendoza,Ibrahima Gning,Charles S. Cleeland +7 more
TL;DR: The purpose of the current study was to explore barriers to optimal pain management among African‐American and Hispanic patients with cancer through the use of structured patient interviews.
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Fatigue and sleep disturbance in patients with cancer, patients with clinical depression, and community-dwelling adults.
Karen O. Anderson,Carl J. Getto,Tito R. Mendoza,Stephen N Palmer,Xin Shelley Wang,Cielito C. Reyes-Gibby,Charles S. Cleeland +6 more
TL;DR: This study compared the severity of fatigue in patients with cancer to the fatigue reported by depressed psychiatric patients and community-dwelling adults, and found that the psychiatric patients reported significantly higher levels of fatigue and fatigue-related interference than the cancer patients, who reported more severe fatigue and interference.