title: Assessing stomatitis: refinement of the Western Consortium for Cancer Nursing Research (WCCNR) stomatitis staging system.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to refine the Western Consortium for Cancer Nursing Research (WCCNR) stomatitis staging system. Fifty-six adult cancer patients were accrued. Using all eight descriptors, 96.4% of the participants were correctly staged. Using only lesions, colour and bleeding, however, 92.9% of the cases were correctly staged. Based on the findings of this study, the WCCNR stomatitis staging system has been shortened to include only lesions, colour and bleeding.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002170:Canada; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D009859:Oncology Nursing; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012956:Societies, Nursing; D013280:Stomatitis / Q000145:classification / Q000451:nursing* / Q000473:pathology*