General practitioner, specialist providers case conferences in palliative care: Lessons learned from 56 case conferences

Australian Family Physician

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 389-392

  Mitchell, Geoffrey ^a   Cherry, Margaret ^a   Kennedy, Rosemary ^b   Weeden, Karen ^a   Burridge, Letty ^a   Clavarino, Alexandra ^a   O'Rourke, Peter ^a   Del Mar, Chris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Townsville Division of General Practice   (Australia)

^c BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; WORKLOAD;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FAMILY PRACTICE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUEENSLAND; WORKLOAD;

EID: 21744451487     PISSN: 03008495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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