Description of the patient's complexity in the out-patient clinic in a Palliative Care Service: Preliminar results;Descripción de la complejidad de los pacientes en la consulta externa de un Servicio de Cuidados Paliatiavos en un centro terciario: Resultados preliminares

Medicina Paliativa

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 20-23

  Porta Sales, Josep ^a   Martinez Garcia M ^a   Gomez Batiste X ^a   Espinosa Rojas, J ^a   Alburquerque Medina, E ^a   Madrid Juan, F ^a   Tuca Rodriguez A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Health services administration; Hospital out patient clinics; Neoplasms; Palliative Care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; AMBULATORY CARE; ANAMNESIS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT SELECTION; POPULATION RISK; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0037244383     PISSN: 1134248X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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