Supportive care in the cancer setting: Rhetoric or reality?

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 328-333

  Willard, Carole ^a   Luker, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Policy; Support

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DOCTOR NURSE RELATION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT CARE; THEORY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 21044451317     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269216305pm1016oa     Document Type: Article

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