Demographic factors and awareness of palliative care and related services

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 145-153

  Koffman, Jonathan ^a   Burke, Geraldine ^b   Dias, Angela ^b   Raval, Bharti ^b   Byrne, Judi ^b   Gonzales, Juan ^c   Daniels, Charles ^c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b St Luke's Hospice   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deprivation; Ethnicity; Gender; Knowledge; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CANCER PATIENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NURSING ROLE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 33947361657     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216306074639     Document Type: Article

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