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Goal: To increase awareness of the benefits of assessing all the symptoms that patients have rather than focusing on only select symptoms.

Objectives:

Discuss the benefits of assessing multidimensional symptoms in the clinical setting.
Describe methods that can be used to assess multidimensional symptoms in patients.
Summarize the needs determined in a study of multidimensional symptom assessments.

Note: The author reported no actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this article.

Anita Jablonski PhD, RN

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