Opening Doors: Improving access to hospice and specialist palliative care services by members of the black and minority ethnic communities. Commentary on palliative care

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 74, Issue SUPPL. 29, 1996, Pages

  Gaffin, J ^a   Hill, D ^a   Penso, D ^a  

^a Natl Cncl Hospice Specialist P ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DAY CARE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HOSPICE; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; NEGRO; NEOPLASM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ETHNIC GROUPS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPICES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0030240701     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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