Dying in the community: General practitioner treatment of community-based patients analysed by chart audit

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 289-292

  Mitchell, Geoffrey ^a   Seamark, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; CYCLIZINE; LAXATIVE; MORPHINE; OPIATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PAIN; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMMUNITY CARE; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DYING; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; RURAL AREA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 0037277155     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269216303pm599xx     Document Type: Article

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