Psychological process from hospitalization to death among uninformed terminal liver cancer patients in Japan

BMC Palliative Care

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Maeda, Yuko ^a   Hagihara, Akihito ^b   Kobori, Eiko ^b   Nakayama, Takeo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; DENIAL; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIVER CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE;

EID: 33748968812     PISSN: 1472684X     EISSN: 1472684X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-684X-5-6     Document Type: Article

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