What Predicts the Quality of Advanced Cancer Care in Latin America? A Look at Five Countries: Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, and Peru

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 315-327

  Torres Vigil, Isabel ^a   Aday, Lu Ann ^a   De Lima, Liliana ^a   Cleeland, Charles S ^a  

^a Center for Research on Minority Health   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; equity; Latin America; opioids; palliative care; quality of care

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION SERVICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTION; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARGENTINA; BRAZIL; CUBA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; MEXICO; NEOPLASMS; PERU; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 34548471731     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2006.11.015     Document Type: Article

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