Transitions in the lives of patients with end stage renal disease: A cause of suffering and an opportunity for healing

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 270-277

  Hutchinson, Tom A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE COURSE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; HEALING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIFE EVENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PHASE TRANSITION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL DIALYSIS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 21044448264     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269216305pm1028oa     Document Type: Article

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