Oropharyngeal dysphagia: The experience of patients with non-head and neck cancers receiving specialist palliative care

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 567-574

  Roe, Justin W G ^a   Leslie, Paula ^b   Drinnan, Michael J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Deglutition; Deglutition disorders; Palliative care; Quality of life; Speech and language therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PANCREAS CANCER; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PILOT STUDY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; VOCAL CORD DISORDER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 36248993580     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216307082656     Document Type: Article

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