Quality of life at the end of life

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Diehr, Paula ^a   Lafferty, William E ^a   Patrick, Donald L ^a   Downey, Lois ^a   Devlin, Sean M ^a   Standish, Leanna J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b BASTYR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TERMINAL CARE; TIME; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HOSPICE CARE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF EVALUATION; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 36148990008     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-5-51     Document Type: Article

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