Palliative care in the Inner City: Patient religious affiliation, underinsurance, and symptom attitude

Cancer

Volumn 109, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2007, Pages 425-434

  Francoeur, Richard B ^a   Payne, Richard ^b   Raveis, Victoria H ^c   Shim, Hyunjung ^d  

^a ADELPHI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Medicaid; Pain and symptom attitudes; Palliative care; Religious affiliation; Uninsured

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MINORITY GROUP; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TERMINAL CARE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 33846194190     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.22363     Document Type: Conference Paper

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