"Beauty is only skin deep": Prevalence of dermatologic disease on a palliative care unit

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 419-422

  Barnabé, Cheryl ^a,b   Daeninck, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; Dermatology; Palliative care; Skin disease; Terminal illness

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DERMATITIS; DERMATOLOGY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PREVALENCE; PRURITUS; RASH; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN INJURY; SYMPTOM; XEROSIS;

EID: 18044372832     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2004.08.009     Document Type: Short Survey

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