Health care restructuring and family physician care for those who died of cancer

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Burge, Frederick I ^a   Lawson, Beverley ^a   Johnston, Grace ^b   Flowerdew, Gordon ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANADA; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERIODICITY; PROSTATE CANCER; STATISTICS; ADOLESCENT; BREAST TUMOR; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMMUNITY CARE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENERAL PRACTICE; HOME VISIT; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; NOVA SCOTIA; PROSTATE TUMOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; TERMINAL CARE; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL RESTRUCTURING; HOSPITALIZATION; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; NOVA SCOTIA; OFFICE VISITS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 14644417901     PISSN: 14712296     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-6-1     Document Type: Article

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