Concordance of preferences for end-of-life care between terminally ILL cancer patients and their family caregivers in Taiwan

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 510-518

  Tang, Siew Tzuh ^a,b   Liu, Tsang Wu ^c   Lai, Mei Shu ^d   Liu, Li Ni ^b   Chen, Chen Hsiu ^e  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e Kang Ning Junior College of Medical Care and Management   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Concordance of preferences; End of life care; Preferences for life sustaining treatments

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER; FAMILY COUNSELING; HEALTH CARE; HOSPICE PATIENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; TAIWAN;

ADULT; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CAREGIVERS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROXY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS; TAIWAN; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 29244455288     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2005.05.019     Document Type: Article

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