Is a 'Palliative' patient always a palliative patient? Two case studies

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 347-351

  Taube, Anna W ^a,b   Jenkins, Catherine ^a   Bruera, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b GREY NUNS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Geriatric population; Malignant disease; Misdiagnosis; Nonmalignant disease; Terminal illness

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIURETIC AGENT; FLUVOXAMINE; LORAZEPAM; MORPHINE; NITRATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; AGING; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HUMAN; MALLORY WEISS SYNDROME; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; SOMATIZATION; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TERMINAL DISEASE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DIGOXIN; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; GRIEF; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; MORPHINE; NEOPLASMS; NORTRIPTYLINE; PALLIATIVE CARE; STOMACH ULCER; TERMINALLY ILL; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0030925896     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-3924(97)00080-8     Document Type: Article

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