Delirium and dehydration: Inevitable companions of terminal disease?

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 443-444

  Stiefel, Frederic ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA; CACHEXIA; DEHYDRATION; DELIRIUM; EDITORIAL; FATIGUE; HUMAN; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINAL DISEASE;

DEHYDRATION; DELIRIUM; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 0036936522     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-002-0382-z     Document Type: Editorial

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