Preferred place of care: An analysis of the 'first 100' patient assessments

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 449-450

  Wood, Justin ^a   Storey, Les ^b   Clark, David ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER MORTALITY; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME CARE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; LETTER; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PLACE PREFERENCE; SURVIVAL TIME; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 34547865704     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216307078294     Document Type: Letter

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