Defining cancer patients as being in the terminal phase: Who receives a formal diagnosis, and what are the effects?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 30, 2005, Pages 7411-7416

  Aabom, B ^a,b   Kragstrup, J ^a   Vondeling, H ^a   Bakketeig, L S ^a   Stovring, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Research Unit of General Practice   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; CANCER CENTER; HOME CARE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ONCOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; PALLIATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 32944456189     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.16.493     Document Type: Article

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