Prospective study of palliative care in ALS: Choice, timing, outcomes

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 169, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 108-113

  Albert, Steven M ^a   Murphy, Peregrine L ^b,c   Del Bene, Maura L ^b   Rowland, L P ^b  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^b NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

ALS; Palliative care; Patient decision making; Prospective study

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 0032720024     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(99)00227-0     Document Type: Article

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