Care for dying patients with primary malignant brain tumor - Respecting dignity -

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 657-659

  Watanabe, Kunihiko ^a   MacLeod, Rod ^b  

^a TOCHIGI CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Dignity; Holistic care; Palliative care; Spiritual care

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; APHASIA; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; COMPREHENSION; DEATH; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DYING; DYSPHAGIA; EMOTION; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; RELIGION; SHORT SURVEY; SKILL; SPIRITUAL CARE; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE; THINKING; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERBALIZATION; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PATIENT RIGHTS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 29544441296     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.45.657     Document Type: Short Survey

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