Randomized controlled trial of a prompt list to help advanced cancer patients and their caregivers to ask questions about prognosis and end-of-life care

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 715-723

  Clayton, Josephine M ^a   Butow, Phyllis N ^a   Tattersall, Martin H N ^a   Devine, Rhonda J ^a   Simpson, Judy M ^a   Aggarwal, Ghauri ^a   Clark, Katherine J ^a   Currow, David C ^a   Elliott, Louise M ^a   Lacey, Judith ^a   Lee, Philip G ^a   Noel, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; TAPE RECORDER; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REMINDER SYSTEM;

ADULT; ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CAREGIVERS; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REMINDER SYSTEMS; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 33947583524     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2006.06.7827     Document Type: Article

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