Pediatric resident education in palliative care: A needs assessment

Pediatrics

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1949-1954

  Kolarik, Russ C ^a,b,g   Walker, Gena ^e,f   Arnold, Robert M ^a,c,d  

^a Division of General Internal Medicine   (United States)

^b Department of Pediatrics ^*  (United States)

^c Center for Bioethics and Health Law   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Departments of Medicine   (United States)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

End of life; Palliative care; Resident education

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; TERMINAL CARE; EDUCATION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE CARE; PEDIATRICS; PENNSYLVANIA;

EID: 33745308513     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2005-1111     Document Type: Article

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