Attitudes of health centre users to diagnoses of terminal illness;Actitud de los usuarios de centro de salud ante el diagnóstico de enfermedad terminal

Atencion Primaria

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 449-454

  Fernandez Suarez A ^a   Fernandez Alvarez T ^a   Alonso Arruquero, C ^a   Marcilla Escotet, M ^a   Cortina Viesca, A ^a   Conde Rodriguez M ^a   Rubio Dominguez J ^a,b  

^a Centros Salud La Magdalena Carriona   (Spain)

^b Gerencia Atencion Primaria Area III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Death; Patient information; Terminal illness

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COUNSELING; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TERMINAL DISEASE;

EID: 0037206987     PISSN: 02126567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0212-6567(02)79070-7     Document Type: Article

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