Actual and preferred place of death of cancer patients. Results from the Italian survey of the dying of cancer (ISDOC)

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 412-416

  Beccaro, Monica ^a   Costantini, Massimo ^a   Rossi, Paolo Giorgi ^b   Miccinesi, Guido ^c   Grimaldi, Maria ^d   Bruzzi, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b ASP Lazio   (Italy)

^c CANCER RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INSTITUTE ISPO   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; HEALTH SERVICES; MORTALITY;

AMBULANCE; CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CAREGIVER; DYING; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; NURSING HOME; PATIENT INFORMATION; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; STRATIFICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DEATH; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOSPICES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TERMINALLY ILL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33646246618     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2005.043646     Document Type: Review

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