Evaluating the impact of a cancer supportive care project in the community: Patient and professional configurations of need

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 520-529

  Pollock, Kristian ^a   Wilson, Eleanor ^a   Porock, Davina ^a   Cox, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community; Keyworker; Medicalisation; Need; Non curative cancer; Palliative care; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NEOPLASM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENTS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 35448960485     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: 13652524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2524.2007.00711.x     Document Type: Article

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