Family caregiver quality of life: Differences between curative and palliative cancer treatment settings

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 418-428

  Weitzner, Michael A ^a,b   McMillan, Susan C ^c   Jacobsen, Paul B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b School of Medicine   (United States)

^c College of Nursing ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Caregiver; Family; Palliative care; Physical health; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER THERAPY; CAREGIVER; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PERFORMANCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0033032493     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-3924(99)00014-7     Document Type: Article

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