The impact of posthospital home care on patients with cancer

Research in Nursing & Health

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 243-251

  McCorkle, Ruth ^a   Jepson, Christopher ^b   Malone, Dolores ^b   Buhler‐Wilkerson, Karen ^b   Lusk, Edward ^a   Braitman, Leonard ^a   Daly, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFTERCARE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NURSING; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AFTERCARE; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMAN; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0028486897     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: 1098240X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nur.4770170403     Document Type: Article

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