Cancer patients' needs during hospitalisation: A quantitative and qualitative study

BMC Cancer

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Tamburini, Marcello ^a   Gangeri, Laura ^a   Brunelli, Cinzia ^a   Boeri, Paolo ^a   Borreani, Claudia ^a   Bosisio, Marco ^a   Karmann, Claudio Fusco ^b   Greco, Margherita ^a   Miccinesi, Guido ^a   Murru, Luciana ^a   Trimigno, Patrizia ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b Italian League Against Cancer   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INSURANCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROGNOSIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; STANDARDIZATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUNTEER; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASM; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 3042757434     PISSN: 14712407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-3-12     Document Type: Article

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