How do terminally ill patients at home take their medication?

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 469-475

  Zeppetella, Giovambattista ^a,b  

^a ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b St Joseph's Hospice   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Home nursing; Neoplasms; Patient compliance; Prescriptions, drug; Terminally ill

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; VITAMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRESCRIPTION; SELF MEDICATION; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DRUGS, NON-PRESCRIPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 0032760606     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/026921699675653923     Document Type: Article

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