Palliative care: Experience with 156 cases in a general hospital

Medical Journal of Malaysia

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 408-417

  Khoo, Siew Beng ^a  

^a PENANG MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Dexamethasone; Malignancy; Metastases; Morphine; Pain; Palliative care; Spinal cord compression

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PAIN; CHINESE; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; CHILD; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE;

EID: 0038798096     PISSN: 03005283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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