Volume of hydration in terminal cancer patients

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 147-150

  Bruera, Eduardo ^a   Belzile, Michele ^a   Watanabe, Sharon ^a   Fainsinger, Robin L ^a  

^a Edmonton General Hospital   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hydration; Route of administration; Terminal cancer

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMAN; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; AGED; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ONCOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; PALLIATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030095569     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01845764     Document Type: Article

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